F15 Nvidia Guide - Page 3

cgrim · #31 29th April 2011, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by cgrim

bob: try kernel 2.6.38.2-14.fc15 - in my case akmod built successfully for this kernel but for 2.6.38.3-17.fc15 and 2.6.38.3-18.fc15 not.

In /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log there is info only about buildings for kernels 2.6.38.2-x. Does anyone have any idea why for kernels 2.6.38.3-x it want's to start building kmod?
Thanks

For kernel 2.6.38.4-20 akmod built succesfully today. Probably akmods don't like odd numbers at the end of kernel version in my case ;-)

Boricua · #32 29th April 2011, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by cgrim

For kernel 2.6.38.4-20 akmod built succesfully today. Probably akmods don't like odd numbers at the end of kernel version in my case ;-)

Hmmm... Same situation here as with the previous kernel - doesn't build.

I get a very frozen gnome-shell.

cgrim · #33 29th April 2011, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Francisco_PR

Hmmm... Same situation here as with the previous kernel - doesn't build.

I get a very frozen gnome-shell.

Frozen as unusable or slow? With nvidia drivers I have veeeery slow Firefox in comparison with nouveau drivers, but gnome-shell is much more stable than with nouveau and don't need to restart it anymore

With nouveau gnome-shell was like ripe pear and felt down tens times during a day

Boricua · #34 29th April 2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by cgrim

Frozen as unusable or slow? With nvidia drivers I have veeeery slow Firefox in comparison with nouveau drivers, but gnome-shell is much more stable than with nouveau and don't need to restart it anymore

With nouveau gnome-shell was like ripe pear and felt down tens times during a day

Frozen as unusable, as always. Only mouse pointer and exaile plying music in the background are operational. I can ctrl-alt-backspace to the login screen and even kill X with ctrl-alt-f2. I verified that even after uninstalling akmod and going back to nouveau I get the message that nvidia module failed during boot. At least with nouveau I get a relatively slow but usable desktop that becomes slower with time until total freeze. Disconcerting situation, to say the least.

stidolph · #35 29th April 2011, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by geolab

nvidia seems to break gnome-shell every time I try to attach a second monitor via nvidia-settings . no problems at all with gnome.fallback

I get this, too (with the nouveau driver) - filed bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699922

fishwilson · #36 29th April 2011, 11:11 PM

thanks for posting this, worked perfect on my very, very old desktop w nvidia 6200 gt gpu

twohot · #37 30th April 2011, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by fishwilson

thanks for posting this, worked perfect on my very, very old desktop w nvidia 6200 gt gpu

Looks like it becomes more pronounced with recent GPUs. My 6600GT worked fine but the 7300/7200s failed woefully. Is it an nvidia driver problem or is it Gnome-shell????. It boots, its loads GDM (I'm happy

) .... then nothing.

All the panel is frozen. The keystrokes work fine, and the mouse is functional but no shell.

Filed a Bug #701043

stidolph · #38 30th April 2011, 05:19 PM

FWIW, I have an older NVidia chip (the NVS140M, in the G84 series) and it's been good with gnome-shell on single-head, but really flakey trying to get multihead gnome-shell to run on it using the nouveau drivers ... runs multihead KDE 4.6 just fine.

I couldn't try the Nvidia drivers, because I couldn't get nouveau to go away (I followed the instructions to ensure no xorg.conf file, ensured blacklisting of nouveau in grub.conf and blacklist-nouveau, I tried the dracut rebuild after renaming the nouveau.ko driver, I tried it all with kmod-nvidia and akmod. Weird, but I had to give up and get some work done!)

***Dan*** · #39 2nd May 2011, 02:33 AM

Once again, Leigh ... merci beaucoup. Works like a charm.

A quick word of advice to any users of the Nvidia GeForce 7150M chipsets. Save yourself some trouble, and follow these steps from tty-2 terminal before you attempt to log into Gnome 3 Gnome shell. Unless you've got a thing for both blind groping with guesswork ... and a fondness for blue and black block-art.

twohot · #40 2nd May 2011, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by cgrim

For kernel 2.6.38.4-20 akmod built succesfully today. Probably akmods don't like odd numbers at the end of kernel version in my case ;-)

Curious

I don't see any kernel like that in the repos.

MicahCarrick · #41 3rd May 2011, 12:57 AM

Following the instructions for F15 worked great for me. The Gnome Shell effects were sluggish with the neuveu drivers but are nice and fast with the Nvidia drivers. I haven't done that much in Firefox, but Chrome is not having any problems including full screen flash video.

I have dual monitors on a GeForce 9500 GT running kernel 2.6.38.4-20.fc15.x86_64 (I had to run the nvidia settings as root to enable the second monitor and save it to xorg.conf).

Thanks for the guide!

cgrim · #42 3rd May 2011, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by twohot

Curious

I don't see any kernel like that in the repos.

You can find it in Koji (Fedora Build system) ;-)
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=241335

Boricua · #43 3rd May 2011, 10:24 AM

I just installed the new kernel 2.6.38.5-22 with the recommended steps. Situation unchanged.

VastOne · #44 4th May 2011, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Francisco_PR

I just installed the new kernel 2.6.38.5-22 with the recommended steps. Situation unchanged.

From where Francisco?

Thanks...

Edit

Never mind... Found it in Packages

Boricua · #45 4th May 2011, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by VastOne

From where Francisco?

Thanks...

Edit

Never mind... Found it in Packages

Yep, it only changed one number from the previous official kernel, so I believe it was a minor change and I wasn't particularly optimistic about the outcome.