F17 Nvidia guide

[PabloTwo]

Run nvidia-settings and turn VSYNC to OFF. Find the setting under the OpenGL Settings. Uncheck the "Sync to VBlank" box.
Before:

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.421 FPS

After:

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ glxgears
65295 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13058.950 FPS

[chepioq]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Run nvidia-settings and turn VSYNC to OFF. Find the setting under the OpenGL Settings. Uncheck the "Sync to VBlank" box.

Thank, that work for me :

[dominique@chepioq ~]$ glxgears
28510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5701.833 FPS
30870 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6173.937 FPS
29398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5879.524 FPS
30219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6043.445 FPS
31715 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6342.987 FPS
31754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6350.739 FPS
31874 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6374.715 FPS
^C
[dominique@chepioq ~]$

[chepioq]

But this config don't stay when I reboot, I am do an nvidia-setting after reboot...

[PabloTwo]

When you use nvidia-settings as a regular user to adjust settings (some settings can only be done as root, the ones that would need to write to the xorg.conf file, for example), it saves the settings in ~/.nvidia-settings-rc file.

The nvidia-settings-rc file is not parsed automatically when you log into your session. In order to make it active on each session log-in, you must create a new session auto-start instance. The command to use for that in the auto-start file is nvidia-settings --load-config-only, or you can just use the short form option of -l.

[chepioq]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

When you use nvidia-settings as a regular user to adjust settings (some settings can only be done as root, the ones that would need to write to the xorg.conf file, for example), it saves the settings in ~/.nvidia-settings-rc file.

The nvidia-settings-rc file is not parsed automatically when you log into your session. In order to make it active on each session log-in, you must create a new session auto-start instance. The command to use for that in the auto-start file is nvidia-settings --load-config-only, or you can just use the short form option of -l.

Thank for the command, I add it in my autostart file and that work...

[neo_in_matrix]

It seems that I do not need to do dracut on kernel 3.8.9.200.

[weitjong]

Originally Posted by neo_in_matrix

It seems that I do not need to do dracut on kernel 3.8.9.200.

Yes, I concur with that. I tried the akmod-nvidia on my F19 (Beta) and it works without the step 3) to remove nouveau from initramfs. On further investigation, I found out that after the package installation, it modified my grub.cfg to blacklist nouveau kernel module from being loaded. Below is the new options being added:

vga=normal nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off

I made a further tweak myself and in the end I am happy with just "nomodeset rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau". YMMV.

While I was at it, I also change my /etc/default/grub file so it looks like this below. This is to ensure that when I use grub2-mkconfig command later to rebuild my grub menu, the new menu will be appended with the right boot option automatically.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb nomodeset rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"

[chepioq]

Just one question:
for F18, the last drivers is 304.88
for F19 it's the 317.19

For test I rebuild the 317.19 for F18 and install, and that work fine.

Wht didn't update the F18 drivers ?

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by chepioq

Just one question:
for F18, the last drivers is 304.88
for F19 it's the 317.19

For test I rebuild the 317.19 for F18 and install, and that work fine.

Wht didn't update the F18 drivers ?

Would you mind sharing the F18 driver you rebuilt? It would, obviously, be fine if you would prefer not to! Thanks.

[chepioq]

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Would you mind sharing the F18 driver you rebuilt? It would, obviously, be fine if you would prefer not to! Thanks.

I rebuild just the x86_64 drivers (and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 with mock for compatibily).

If you want, send me your email by mp, and I send you the rpm in a tarball.

[nonamedotc]

Sent. Thanks a bunch.