Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?

[John Pilkington]

On 02/10/12 15:03, Andre Massing wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> I am running fedora 17 on a Macbook Pro 6,2 with an integrated intel
> and a nvidia graphic card,
> lspci -v | grep VGA
> gives:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce
> GT 330M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>
> Unfortunately,  there are two issues which the open source driver nouveau:
>
> 1. The laptop does not resume from suspend to ram after having been
> connected to an external monitor, this is bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858798
>
> 2. I intend to work with Nvidias CUDA framework and therefore have to
> use their driver :(
>
> I tried to use both the nvidia-graphics.x86_64e kmod-nvidia* package
> from rpmfusion repo and the nvidia-graphics package from the atrpms repo.
>
> Using standard boot options, the boot process seems to hang just
> before gdm is started. Adding the kernel option nomodeset,
> the monitor gets dark after the boot process and after having
> connected a 2nd monitor I realized that actually the laptop monitor
> light was completely switched off. Is there any possibility to switch
> it on during the boot process?
>
> Any ideas or experience how to get the Nvidia driver running?
> Of course, any pointers or hints are very much appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Andre

Hi:  I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a few 
comments.

The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed incompatible. 
If you try one, remove all traces of the other - lib packages too.

I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in 
nvidia-graphics-helpers, nvidia-graphics302.17, a kmdl and a libs 
package, and maybe nvidia-graphics-devices too.

I don't think the nomodeset kernel option has been needed for some time, 
although it probably gets set automatically.

You may need to run, as root, /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch.

HTH

John P