Rob Garth » nvidia http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg Mildly Useful Stuff Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fedora 11 and the Nvidia Drivers http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2009/08/20/fedora-11-and-the-nvidia-drivers/ http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2009/08/20/fedora-11-and-the-nvidia-drivers/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:52:15 +0000 robg http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/?p=362 Tried several times to get drivers from nvidia to work on a laptop and all I got was a black screen.

Did a bit more of a look and I discovered that F11 uses the new nouveau drivers as default. Which is great, but there is no support yet for this card in the nouveau project. So I need the nvidia drivers for decent GL. The nouveau drivers conflict with the ones from nvidia.

Once you have the nvidia drivers compiled and installed, either direct from nvidia or the rpmfusion project you need to recreate the initrd boot image.

# mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img /boot/initrd-($uname -r)-nouveau.img
# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
# reboot

X should now start with the nvidia driver.

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