> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 22:13 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: >> the process was so transparent, I can't help but wonder if all those >> modifications to the kernel that I read about in the doc have been >> made. > > What modifications to the kernel are you expecting?
Well, when I tried to install the driver on my system with the NVIDIA instructions, I came to a step where you had to download a precompiled version of the kernel or, since , my net connection was closed, it was suggested to recompile on my system. >From what you say here, I gather that this step is already done for Fedora: whatever changes need to be made for the Nvidia kernel, they are present in the default kernel. kmod install the driver, akmod is used only in case you use a kernel other that the one provided by default by Fedora. The Nvidia procedure doesn't seem aware that the Fedora kernel is ready to use. I just checked the instructions at rpmfusion. They provided the answer I needed. Here goes: Fedora 10 and 11 Please remember that once the drivers are installed, they will configure your xorg.conf automatically and changes will take effect after a full reboot. There is no need to run nvidia-xconfig or other tools. GeForce 6 and higher (mine is a 9400 GT) yum install kmod-nvidia Fedora 11 and nouveau As nouveau is enabled by default starting with Fedora 11, you may experience problem which is caused by the nouveau kernel module being present in the initrd image. To avoid such problem, after you have installed the right series of the nvidia driver for your hardware, execute the following commands: su - mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img /boot/initrd-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) reboot http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia ---------------------------------- Before reboot, the following command: lsmod | grep nouveau has this output (for me): nouveau 472800 0 drm 208060 1 nouveau i2c_algo_bit 6020 1 nouveau i2c_core 22288 5 nvidia,i2c_piix4,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit After reboot, there is no output whereas: lsmod | grep nvidia gives: nvidia 10260024 26 i2c_core 22240 2 i2c_piix4,nvidia The Nvidia driver is installed! I had read the instructions at fedorafaq.org, which are: 3. Become root: su - 4. Install the driver: yum install kmod-nvidia 5. Reboot your machine: reboot And now you should have working 3D with your nVidia card! -------------------- As you can see there is no mention of changing the .img file in /boot. Those instructions seem incomplete and shouldn't provide a working Nvidia driver. Should I write to Max Kanat-Alexander to suggest changes? Do we agree? A search on: "mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img /boot/initrd-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img" command at Google outputs 2 results: one for the page at rpmfusion and one for this forum. It seems the instructions are nowhere complete except at rpmfusion... unless some other places $(uname -r) is replaced by something such as {your-kernel-version}, which would be rather ackward. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
