On 05/02/2010 11:14 AM, john wendel wrote: > I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to be > very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver > that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like > "don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chuckle or two. > > After starting, a "helpful" pop-up told me that I needed the Nvidia > driver if I wanted 3D acceleration and certain other (unspecified) > enhancements. It offered to install the driver (after explaining why it > was BAD from a free software perspective), so I said OK. I was then > offered a choice from the 3 driver versions, without any explanation of > which one I needed (I needed the 173 version), and the "recommended" > version was the latest (195 version). STRIKE 1! I selected the 173 > version and clicked the "activate" button. After some > downloading/installing, I was told that I needed to restart the system > to use the new driver. IT'S A LIVE CD FOLKS! Restarting of course wiped > out the new driver download. STRIKE2! So, I did the download again and > this time instead of restarting the system, I just restarted X. Luckily, > I know how to kill and restart X because there is no newbie friendly > menu selection to do this. Of course, it didn't work because the Nouveau > driver got loaded first and kept the Nvidia driver from loading. STRIKE > 3! I'm out. > > Of course, with an installed version of Ubuntu, this process would > probably have worked fine. I really wish the best for Ubuntu, but I > think I'll stick with Fedora. > > Sorry for the noise. > > Regards, > > John > Please read this http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392aaeb6 TWO things must be done To use the default initrd, but disable the nouveau driver, edit /etc/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the line(s) starting with 'kernel': rdblacklist=nouveau Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load. setsebool -P allow_execstack on Thats that Read the documentation here -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
