Re: Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:53:09AM +0300, Pasha R wrote:
>
>> After log in, gnome shell draws its top bar, but after that
>> it simply stops drawing anything on screen. If I launch terminal, I
>> can see that mouse pointer changes when it goes in and out of terminal
>> window, but window itself can not be seen.
>> After sometime it displays "sad terminal" icon with a message "Oh no!
>> Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't
>> recover. Please log out and try again".
>> Are NVidia drivers supported by Gnome 3?
>
> 1) The rpmfusion (kmod or akmod) install does not get rid of the nouveau
>   kernel modules as expected. You MUST run dracut to create a new
>   initramfs file before rebooting. Only then are the nouveau modules
>   unloaded.
>
> 2) There still seems to be something wrong because something akin
>   to what Pasha wrote happens in my case also.
>   I get to the login screen. I can login and the full gnome 3 desktop
>   appears (blue striped wallpaper + top bar with all the necessary
>   entries). But thats it. No activity at all. I can press the windows
>   key nothing happens, position the mouse cursor on the user name and
>   click but no menu drops down, etc. The screen is frozen.
>   I can only logout with ctrl-alt-backspace.
>
> So can their be some kind of conflict between the nvidia drivers and
> the gnome 3 shell. Is it possible that selinux is involved in this
> somehow.
>
> I really would like to solve this because I have wasted enough time
> trying to get this working. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Alexander

I installed the akmod-nvidia, and now also ran dracut --force to
recreate initramfs (and, obviously, rebooted). It doesn't help. I
installed KDE and it works, so, I guess drivers are working.
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