Nvidia Driver (kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia) not working on GT555M

[soumen]

Hi,
Ive been trying to install the nvidia driver on my Alienware M14X which has a Nvidia GT555M. I have tried twice from a fresh install, and this is what I've done.
(1st try)
1) Update fully
2) yum install akmod-nvidia
3) rebuild the initramfs (dracut)
After this, I got an error at boot which says something like MUX Signal error and the system does not boot.

I went over to the IRC and some kind souls helped me out and suggested that I do the following (and I did)

1) Update fully
2) yum install kmod-nvidia

Essentially, they said I didnt need to build the initramfs again. Having done this, I rebooted, and I got exactly the same results (the MUX error). I would like some insight into what is happening here. Can I expect it to work? Is there any way of going back to the nouveau driver?
Regards,
Soumen

[JEO]

It's not clear to me that you performed all the steps needed to properly install the nvidia driver. Take a look at Leigh's procedure here and try this if you haven't already:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

If you want to go back to nouveau make sure it is not blacklisted and remove nomodeset in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and not blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d, then uninstall all nvidia related packages "rpm -qva |grep nvidia" (to see them) then rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by soumen

Hi,
Ive been trying to install the nvidia driver on my Alienware M14X which has a Nvidia GT555M. I have tried twice from a fresh install, and this is what I've done.
(1st try)
1) Update fully
2) yum install akmod-nvidia
3) rebuild the initramfs (dracut)
After this, I got an error at boot which says something like MUX Signal error and the system does not boot.

I went over to the IRC and some kind souls helped me out and suggested that I do the following (and I did)

1) Update fully
2) yum install kmod-nvidia

Essentially, they said I didnt need to build the initramfs again. Having done this, I rebooted, and I got exactly the same results (the MUX error). I would like some insight into what is happening here. Can I expect it to work? Is there any way of going back to the nouveau driver?
Regards,
Soumen

Google the term "optimus nvidia linux"

[deathkill]

http://duxyng.wordpress.com/2012/01/...-on-fedora-16/