Fedora Scrolling Lag

[c. marlow]

On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 11:29 +1100, Roger wrote:
> On 01/04/14 10:56, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 04/01/14 07:31, c. marlow wrote:
> >> ah Ok then Roger thats something I havent done yet... Install the Nvidia drivers... I guess I am using whatever came with this fresh install
> >> how do I see what I have and how do I go about installing them?
> > Fedora doesn't ship with, or support the nVidia drivers.  They only supply the opensouce nouveau driver for nVidia hardware.   Assuming you do have nVidia hardware you should see the nouveau driver module loaded when you consult the output of "lsmod".
> >
> > There are several ways to install the proprietary nVidia drivers.  I prefer the RPMfusion method.
> >
> > You'd go to  http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration and follow the instructions for enabling the RPMfusion Free and Non-Free repositories.
> >
> > Then....
> >
> > yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia kmod-nvidia
> >
> > Should be sufficient.
> >
> >
> Make sure firstly that you have a nvidia video card.
> If so then the above is how I have done the install.
> Roger



Roger:

chris at localhost ~$ lspci |grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT
640] (rev a1)

chris at localhost ~$ 


Thanks,
Christopher