I'm using Fedora 11 on a Sony Vaio Z VNG-Z790DLX, running kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE. I installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and kmod-nvidia-PAE from the RPMfusion repository
Nvidia is working just fine. Ciao. --- Gio 15/10/09, Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kas...@epfl.ch> ha scritto: > Da: Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kas...@epfl.ch> > Oggetto: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Nvidia driver problem with kernel 2.6.30 > A: sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net > Data: Giovedì 15 ottobre 2009, 17:07 > Hi, > > I just got a big problem with the nvidia graphics card with > the new kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora. > The intel one is working well. No problem. > > The nvidia is... not working with the nvidia driver (last > one 180...). But it works with 'vesa' or 'nv', or even > 'nouveau' (but who cares ... we don't want them except > nouveau...). I actually need the nvidia one for 3d fast > computing (a reason why I bought this > Actually, I searched a lot and find out how to solve the > current problem. > > I don't know if you have the same problem, but I share my > solution to you so that it may help someone : > > Add a vmalloc=196M parameter to the kernel so that there is > enough memory for the nvidia driver. > Actually, I got the solution from this thread : > http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=42278 > > I don't know if 196M is the good value (I may try some > other values... I think the less which is working is the > best for it doesn't take too much memory). > > Anyway, it solved the problem for me (and I'm now really > happy :D). > Hope that can help. > > Alexandre Kaspar > > --http://www.wox-xion.ch/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
