Re: Did anybody successfully install the proprietary Nvidia driver on Macbook Pro(EFI boot)?

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On 10/02/2012 05:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> 
>> Hi:  I've no Mac experience and currently run f16 but here are a
>> few comments.
>> 
>> The rpmfusion and atrpms packages are generally believed
>> incompatible. If you try one, remove all traces of the other -
>> lib packages too.
>> 
>> I use ATrpms; the nvidia-graphics package should pull in 
>> nvidia-graphics-helpers, nvidia-graphics302.17, a kmdl and a
>> libs package, and maybe nvidia-graphics-devices too.
>> 
>> I don't think the nomodeset kernel option has been needed for
>> some time, although it probably gets set automatically.
>> 
>> You may need to run, as root, /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch.
> 
> This may be needed too (from the f16 package description):
> 
> Add ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" 
> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions" ModulePath
> "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" to `Section "Files"' in the config file
> and remove/comment the dri module.

Thank you very much for the helpful comments! Work is done for today,
so I can go home now and tinker with the settings. I will report back
later...

Best,
Andre




> 
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> John P
>> 
> 
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