Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

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Am 30.06.2016 um 23:50 schrieb Ed Greshko:
>
> On 07/01/16 05:29, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked
>>> on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after
>>> about a week, this happened:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286
>>>
>>> Total screen freeze :-(.
>>>
>>> At least it took as long as a week.
>>>
>>> If it happens a lot, I may have to go back to
>>> nvidia binaries (I hate the pain of installing them).
>> I am still on F23 (haven't seen anything yet to say F24 is stable) and I am using the
>> negativo17 environment for the nvidia drivers, steam and multimedia and found no issues
>> with installs/upgrades, in my view its no more difficult than installing any Fedora
>> package.

I'm using F24 with nvidia drivers and steam. No problems except with my
external sound card. But thanks to Richards fix the problem has been solved.

>>  I'm using these for the nvidia drivers because rpmfusion seems to have stopped
>> keeping their F23 versions in sync with the kernel, in so far as trying to install the
>> binary drivers wants to install them at the 4.2.3 kernel level. Once you issue the dnf
>> command to add the negativo17 repository, it is just a matter of issuing dnf install
>> nvidia-driver and its off and going.
>>
>> Just as a side issue to the track, if I use Fedup to upgrade from F23 to F24, is it
>> going to function the same as using Fedup to upgrade from F22 to F23, and remove the
>> binary/source nvidia drivers and migrate the system back to nouveau?
>>
> In the past I've used fedup to upgrade and now, of course, dnf.  In neither case were the
> nvidia drivers removed/replaced with nouveau.  This is using the nvidia drivers supplied
> by rpmfusion.

I can confirm this behaviour. Never ever has the nvidia driver been
reverted to the nouveau driver as long as using rpmfusion.


>
> Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to supply kmods
> will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories keeping in sync
> with released kernels.

Yes, works like a charm. :)

Cheers
Mat

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