On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:15:57AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Your understanding is, on the whole, correct. However, you can always > >> use akmod-nvidia instead. If there's not a kmod for the current kernel, > >> akmod builds it on the fly at boot. It's not a panacea by any means, > >> but for most of us, it's much better than having to remember to > >> re-install the binary blob every time there's a kernel update. > >The real question is, is the nvidia blob still necessary? In F15, the > >nouveau driver has 3D acceleration enabled by default. Performance > >might not be all the way to the nvidia drivers, but GNOME Shell runs in > >standard mode with the default nouveau driver. That should at least > >tide you over until the nvidia packages catch up. > I don't use nvidia's blob, but nouveau's stability is still not > consistent. Maybe about 10% of the time X locks up when I open > gthumb. If I ssh in and kill X, Gnome will whine and go into > fallback mode. I must reboot to regain hardware acceleration. > It's not a big deal to me, especially as compared to the rest of the > issues with gnome 3, but I can see how some might prefer to stick > with nvidia. It might not be a big deal but the lock ups, though not very frequent, sometimes occur at very inopportune moments. Also irritating is the snails pace at which graphical actions happen. But I am not complaining since the situation, in my case at least, is even more irritating with regard to nvidia. I have tried with both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia and done everything according to the book but I really wonder if the installation scripts from rpmfusion are 100% adapted to fed 15. The installation just can't get rid of the nouveau modules so you just boot up to the 'desktop' but mouse and keyboard can't activate anything. I even tried some contortions with respect to initram, etc. but to no avail. A couple of years ago I had no problems with rpmfusion kmod-nvidia's Alexander -- 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
