F15 Nvidia Guide

[Soukyuu]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

Well this should fix it

su - sed -i '/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0|' /boot/grub/grub.conf 
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname   -r)-nouveau.img 
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
reboot

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Yes! Thank you.
So... what exactly did I do there. I get the first line, but what does the second and the third line do? (Answer if you have time)
Also, while executing dracut it showed me the following:

W: Possible missing firmware "q12400_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12322_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12300_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12200_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12100_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "cbfw_fc.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "ctfw_cna.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "ctfw_fc.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "aic94xx-seq.fw" for kernel module "aic94xx.ko"

Should I be concerned?

And do I have to enable akmods.service again?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Yes! Thank you.
So... what exactly did I do there. I get the first line, but what does the second and the third line do? (Answer if you have time)
Also, while executing dracut it showed me the following:

W: Possible missing firmware "q12400_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12322_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12300_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12200_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "q12100_fw.bin" for kernel module "q1a2xxx.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "cbfw_fc.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "ctfw_cna.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "ctfw_fc.bin" for kernel module "bfa.ko"
W: Possible missing firmware "aic94xx-seq.fw" for kernel module "aic94xx.ko"

Should I be concerned?

And do I have to enable akmods.service again?

The second line renames initramfs (boot image) so it's no longer used, the third line regenerates initramfs without the nouveau module.
The firmware warning can be safely ignored as for akmods.service, I would leave it disabled for the time being till they fix it ( you might have to run "akmods --force" after kernel updates).

[Soukyuu]

Ok, thanks for explaining.
Now my only problem is that I can't seem to get 1920x1080 in plymouth (highest that worked is 720p) while it worked back on nouveau. Black borders are ugly... does nouveau use another system or am I doing something wrong?

I tried setting the resolution to 1600x1200x24 but i got a message that it was an invalid mode on boot. After scanning, the highest I saw was 1280x720, so I used that one. If there is no way to get 1080p with these drivers, can I at least force it to stretch the image?
Oh and also, gnome-shell seems to crash if I switch to tty2-4 and back to tty1. Sent a report via ABRT

[Nava2]

Originally Posted by sillav

If you get the error about not being able to install due to a glibc-common being wrong version, just yum downgrade glibc glibc-common and then yum install what leigh says.

This is likely a temporary problem with packages, and I haven't seen much evidence of anyone else being affected.

Also, as I'm on x86_64 I yum installed akmod-nvidia.x86_64 and nvidia-libs.x86_64. Leigh's guide doesn't distinguish between 32 & 64 bit, so this may be done automagically by yum or it may not be necessary at all.

This seemed to by pass the install issues!

Although, it appeared after that my kernel installed incorrectly so I could not boot the most recent kernel. The RC1 kernel is buggered in the respect that there are no headers for akmod to use. Thus, when I started using the regular kernel (after reinstalling it because it did not create an intramfs file..) it works great. I now have GNOME 3

[sudomaster]

I have just installed the latest and greatest dvd install. I'm running the PAE kernel and tried to install the nvidia drivers for my system but couldn't even get to step two of the process.

Are the drivers and/or instructions already outdated? I'm nervous about installing the nvidia drivers....

uname -r
2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE

I don't think there is a suitable PAE nvidia driver in the repositories. Any thoughts?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by sudomaster

I have just installed the latest and greatest dvd install. I'm running the PAE kernel and tried to install the nvidia drivers for my system but couldn't even get to step two of the process.

Are the drivers and/or instructions already outdated? I'm nervous about installing the nvidia drivers....

uname -r
2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE

I don't think there is a suitable PAE nvidia driver in the repositories. Any thoughts?

Follow the guide.

[John the train]

Leigh, sudomaster,
It looks as if there's a line of code missing from the PAE section of the F15 guide. After enabling the rpmfusion repos. I was able to pick out the required packages ( I'd used Leigh's guide in F14, so I knew what to look for ) I'm still in the process of housebreaking Gnome 3, so rather than confuse you with what I think I installed I'd advise waiting for Leigh to check out what I've said. BTW, the selinux bug stopping Gnome shell opening seems to have been fixed in RC3/Final.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by John the train

Leigh, sudomaster,
It looks as if there's a line of code missing from the PAE section of the F15 guide. After enabling the rpmfusion repos. I was able to pick out the required packages ( I'd used Leigh's guide in F14, so I knew what to look for ) I'm still in the process of housebreaking Gnome 3, so rather than confuse you with what I think I installed I'd advise waiting for Leigh to check out what I've said. BTW, the selinux bug stopping Gnome shell opening seems to have been fixed in RC3/Final.

I corrected the PAE bit, there are no ready made kmod packages for F15 yet.
The only method that currently works is akmod, if using PAE you will need to ensure that the correct devel is installed

su
yum install kernel-PAE-devel

[sudomaster]

I was following the guide exactly and this is my output from running

yum install  kmod-nvidia-PAE

Error: Package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
           Requires: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE
           Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15-Beta)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE
           Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (@updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE
           Available: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
           Available: kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686
           Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAEdebug
           Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAEdebug
           Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.debug
           Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.debug
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

That was the output *after* dependency resolution.

I don't have time to mess around with this right now - off to work - but maybe someone will have a solution eventually. In actual fact, nouveau is working great right now (although I can't game) so I'm not too anxious to break it