On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Henrik Frisk <fris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, TortuXm++ <tort...@baobob.org> wrote: > >> Sorry for double posting, I had a little problem on my keyboard. >> >> > -- >> > OK, thanks for the info. However, it turns out that my installation of >> > the nvidia drivers was not as succeful as I tought. After reboot my >> laptop >> > refuses to start X (hangs during startup). After removing the nvidia >> > drivers and returning to nouveau things work again. This is on >> > 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE. >> > >> > I would prefer to have the nvidia drivers working so any suiggestions >> for >> > a workaround will be greatly appreciated. >> > >> > best, >> >> The main problem I usually had when switching from nouveau to nvidia or >> vice >> versa is the fact that nouveau is built in the initrd so that KMS can be >> used. >> >> If you want to switch to nvidia, you have to blacklist nouveau, and then >> re- >> generate the initrd >> >> Although I did blacklist nouveau, I didn't regenerate the initrd. > Hopefully that fixes it. > >> >> I *think* that the rpmfusion nvidia package already generated a >> blacklist-nouveau >> file in modprobe.d. I this is true, you'd just have to recreate the initrd >> with dracut. >> >> >> Here is the howto I found on rpmfusion : >> >> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia >> >> That's useful. Thank you for the information! > > Hmm, I'm still getting the same results. I followed the instructions above but when I reboot, after the three blue bars have finished loading and turned white, the bar starts flickering and eventually comes to a halt. After that nothing happens. I go back to nouveau things work fine again. Any further suggestions? /h
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