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Configuring an nVidia Card and Kernel Modules - mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
New in Fedora 13 is nouveau 3D support, it is preferable to try the experimental drivers before installing kmod-nvidia. This howto discusses the installation and configuration of mesa-dri-drivers-experimental in conjunction with nouveau
Applicable to Fedora Versions
- Fedora 13-14
- note for Fedora 11 and 12 - please use the nvidia-kmod at http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod
Requirements
- Fedora 13 or 14
Doing the Work
1. Check to see what kernel module you are using:
rpm -qa \*kmod-nvidia\*
If a result is returned, you have kmod-nvidia installed, you should continue with step 2, otherwise you can skip and go straight to step 7.
2. Remove kmod-nvidia (Skip this step if you do not have kmod-nvidia installed)
su -c "rpm -qa \*kmod-nvidia\* | xargs yum -y remove"
3. Remove any rdblacklist from /boot/grub/grub.conf
su -c "sed -i 's/rdblacklist=nouveau//g' /boot/grub/grub.conf"
4. Backup initramfs
su -c 'mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nvidia.img'
5. Commit changes to initramfs
su -c 'dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)'
6. Backup xorg.conf
su -c 'mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia'7. Install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
su -c "yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental"
8. Reboot the machine
Troubleshooting
How to test
- Run the following command in a terminal
glxinfo | grep -q "Gallium" && echo "Hardware 3D" || echo "Software 3D"
If successful, you should get:
Hardware 3D
Common problems and fixes
None found as yet, if you encounter any problems, please come and ask in #fedora (freenode), with the following fpaste (may need installing) results:
(rpm -qa *\kmod-nvidia\* ; lsmod ; ls -lh /boot ; lspci | grep VGA ; glxinfo | grep render ; cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log ;) | fpaste
If you are still encountering problems, try the kmod-nvidia package at http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod
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Disclaimer
We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net
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