On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Steven P. Ulrick < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone > I am running Fedora 12. Fresh install (not an upgrade) and fully updated. > I am > also running the NVidia driver from rpmfusion's testing repo. ALMOST > everything > is working perfectly. > > Also, I am using the KDE that ships with Fedora 12. > > My main issue is that when I hit "Alt | F2", the "Run Command" dialog takes > about 10 seconds to come up. Until it does come up, my system is useless. > It > makes no difference if I right click on the desktop and choose "Run > Command" > Also, the KDE Kickoff Application Launcher responds slowly. > > My first idea is that it is an issue with the Plasma Desktop. But then why > would > it take so long just to start Konsole? > > So how can I easily/temporarily disable the rpmfusion NVidia driver for the > purpose of testing this issue? Just for testing this, I would really > rather not > undo what it took to get this to work as well as it has: > > su - > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img > dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) > > This all worked perfectly on Fedora 11, and I did not have these issues on > Fedora 12 until I installed the NVidia driver from rpmfusion testing. > > My system's specs should be good enough to handle all the desktop effects > that I > might want to throw at it: > Intel Xeon 2.0GHZ QuadCore processor, 8gigs of RAM, nVidia Corporation G94 > [GeForce 9600 GT] (which includes 512MV of RAM) > > So, it would be good to temporarily disable the NVidia driver for testing > purposes. > > Steven P. Ulrick > > P.S.: The reason why this MIGHT not be off topic here is that I am using > the KDE > that ships with Fedora 12. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Execute the following command to unload the nvidia graphics driver. # rmmod nvidia -- Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic (2) National University of Singapore My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Email: [email protected] Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 Street: Bedok Reservoir Road Country: Singapore
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