Hello Roderick I got the following from the page that you linked to: I added the following to a file named rdieter.repo: [rdieter] name=xorg-x11-server rebuilds for nvidia users baseurl=http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/repo/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
I then ran "yum update", restarted X and all was back to normal :) Thank you, Steven P. Ulrick > 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 > > >
