Video is slow

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:22:57 +1000
Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
> I followed the instructions in : 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
> but must have missed something because Fedora 19 is now trash.
> Will not even start to boot so I can't get to a terminal.

While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those
instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know who
wrote those instructions, but overengineering a solution for a common
problem is a always a Recipe For Disaster(tm).

Now nobody knows what you did, in how many ways were those instructions
broken, and how much time and effort will it take to fix that
mess... :-(

> Unless I can get into things from Ubuntu, and I have no idea how to
> do that,  it will probably mean a  fresh install.
> 
> I had forgotten the difficulty and complexity of installing nvidia,
> it certainly brings back memories, I think the reason I decided  to
> use Nouveau was because I was using Fedora as a test bed and updating
> with new releases.

Installing nvidia drivers is as simple as I have told you --- enable
rpmfusion, yum install kmod-nvidia, reboot the machine. There is
absolutely no reason for any of those to fail (unless in some very weird
situations). All other "steps" in that "solution" on fedoraforum are
either redundant, or downright wrong, or both...

Just look at this mess:

<quote>
su
yum update kernel\* selinux-policy\*
reboot
<end quote>

WTF??!! What does updating selinux-policy have to do with installing
nvidia drivers?

<quote>
su
yum install kernel-PAE-devel
<end quote>

AFAIK, since some time now all i686 kernels are PAE.

<quote>
su
yum --nogpgcheck install
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
<end quote>

Come on, i686? Really?? And what if the user runs a 64bit arch?
Besides, akmod-nvidia will pull in the xorg package as a dependency, no
need to ask for it explicitly.

<quote>
su
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname
-r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
<end quote>

And now this --- after it has been already automatically done by the
installation of (a)kmod-nvidia, do it again manually, just for good
measure, right?

There are even further instructions to edit grub.cfg, change the
selinux policy, blacklist nouveau and beat it to death three times
over... I don't even dare to look further down! And all the while, the
guy repeats in red-colored large font: "If you don't follow all three
steps, your install will fail!". He should have better said "If you *do*
follow all these steps...". :-@

Maybe some of these steps made sense back in the days of F14. But
today, it cannot be even called "obsolete", it is just a big pile of
crap, lousy advice and FUD!

HTH.
Marko