Am 30.06.2016 um 23:50 schrieb Ed Greshko: > > On 07/01/16 05:29, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked >>> on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after >>> about a week, this happened: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 >>> >>> Total screen freeze :-(. >>> >>> At least it took as long as a week. >>> >>> If it happens a lot, I may have to go back to >>> nvidia binaries (I hate the pain of installing them). >> I am still on F23 (haven't seen anything yet to say F24 is stable) and I am >> using the >> negativo17 environment for the nvidia drivers, steam and multimedia and >> found no issues >> with installs/upgrades, in my view its no more difficult than installing any >> Fedora >> package.
I'm using F24 with nvidia drivers and steam. No problems except with my external sound card. But thanks to Richards fix the problem has been solved. >> I'm using these for the nvidia drivers because rpmfusion seems to have >> stopped >> keeping their F23 versions in sync with the kernel, in so far as trying to >> install the >> binary drivers wants to install them at the 4.2.3 kernel level. Once you >> issue the dnf >> command to add the negativo17 repository, it is just a matter of issuing dnf >> install >> nvidia-driver and its off and going. >> >> Just as a side issue to the track, if I use Fedup to upgrade from F23 to >> F24, is it >> going to function the same as using Fedup to upgrade from F22 to F23, and >> remove the >> binary/source nvidia drivers and migrate the system back to nouveau? >> > In the past I've used fedup to upgrade and now, of course, dnf. In neither > case were the > nvidia drivers removed/replaced with nouveau. This is using the nvidia > drivers supplied > by rpmfusion. I can confirm this behaviour. Never ever has the nvidia driver been reverted to the nouveau driver as long as using rpmfusion. > > Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to > supply kmods > will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories > keeping in sync > with released kernels. Yes, works like a charm. :) Cheers Mat > > > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
