Steven
This is a known problem with a known workaround. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620
Roderick
Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
Hello Everyone
I have the following RPM's installed on my fully updated Fedora 12 system:
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 190.42-1.fc12.4 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 190.42-2.fc12 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 190.42-2.fc12 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-
testing
I followed the directions contained at
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-0a6074ea13626b48d876f75be3ae971044b0019e
the appropriate part for me being:
Fedora 12
Note: nVidia currently doesn't support cards older than Geforce6 on the
xorg-x11-server used by Fedora 12. Please verify that the nouveau driver will
fit your needs while upgrading.
In order to keep compatibility with nouveau, you need to recreate the initrd
manually after the driver has been installed.
su -
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so SElinux
doesn't prevent the driver to load.
setsebool -P allow_execstack on
I did not need to follow the part about SElinux, because I have that disabled.
My problem is that now certain (as opposed to all) things seem to be a lot less
responsive than they used to be. I am comparing running the NVidia driver from
rpmfusion under Fedora 11 to my current Fedora 12 setup. I had NEVER seen even
the little annoyances that I am going to describe...
I am running the KDE that ships with Fedora 12. When I press "Alt | F2", the
"Run Command" box takes about 10 seconds to appear. If I type "konsole" in the
"Run Command" box, it takes 5 or more seconds to start. Until "Run Command"
comes up, I have to wait before I can use the computer for anything else.
I have just disabled "Desktop Effects" and there is no change to this behavior.
Again, I never had this problem with Fedora 11. Also, I did not have this
problem on Fedora 12 until I installed the NVidia driver from rpmfusion.
If there is an easy way to restart my system without the rpmfusion NVidia
driver, I will be glad to try that and see if my problem goes away. I would
rather not try to undo the following:
su -
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
As far as my system is concerned...
Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz QuadCore
Memory: 8 Gigabytes
Video Card: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce
9600 GT] (rev a1)
The video card itself has 512MB of memory. Also, only about 806MB of RAM is
being used right now, and my four cores are running MOSTLY around 0%, with one
of them spiking for a moment or so up to about 10-12%. So it's not like my
system is seriously overloaded :) But again, with this same exact system, I
never have seen an issue like this under Fedora 11, or before I installed the
NVidia drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing.
Steven P. Ulrick
