Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:38 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Linuxguy123 wrote: >>> There has been a lot of discussion about how various KDE components >>> utilize special graphics routines/modes available on certain video cards >>> and that the drivers for certain cards have bugs in them that don't >>> allow said KDE components to run properly. >>> >>> I am wondering if the release candidates shouldn't have the latest and >>> greatest nvidia drivers installed on them so that a) the KDE components >>> get tested as they were intended to run and b) the nvidia drivers get >>> tested too. >>> >>> Please discuss. >> As I understand things, doing as you suggest would make it an >> nvidia-only live image Talked it over with some #rpmfusion folks, and it seems that I was wrong, and should be possible: [13:57] <rdieter> If one wanted to make a live image/cd with, say, the nvidia driver/kmods pre-installed, how well would that function for folks with a !=nvidia video card? (My guess, not all that well) [13:58] <firewing1> rdieter: If you want to use the rpmfusion-config-display betas, perfectly [13:59] <rdieter> ok, neat. I've been spinning test kde live images, and had a request to include one with nvidia drivers, didn't know how that would work [14:01] <rdieter> firewing1: mind a little hand holding? 1. Which pkgs need to be included/installed? 2. is there any post-precessing involved (ie, I'm unfamiliar with rpmfusion-config-display), how does that work? [14:02] <firewing1> rdieter: Just install xorg-x11-drv-foo for whichever drivers you'd like to use, and then you'll have to install rpmfusion-config-display as well as the configuration files onto the Live CD [14:02] <firewing1> the initscript will configure xorg.conf appropriately, depending on the hardware [14:02] <firewing1> in the bug (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171) I have sample configs posted [14:03] <firewing1> Essentially, rpmfusion-config-display looks in /etc/rpmfusion-config-display.d for driver configurations, and depending on the PCI ID of the installed hardware, will select a good driver [14:03] <firewing1> Just a heads-up, I think I made a mistake in the legacy nvidia ones though (wrong version= key) [14:04] <firewing1> rdieter: One last thing - you might want to disable plymouth if you plan on using the live cd on ATI hardware - loading radeon before fglrx currently breaks it [14:04] <rdieter> ok, I'll might just give it a whirl. thank you.
