Hi.
On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:40:04 -0400 "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote:
> | I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't
> | managed to get it to work with Fedora.
> Sorry, that was a bad summary. I have not been able to get it to work
> WELL with Fedora. I'm still hopeful.
> - it hangs with the nouveau driver. (Which it tries to use unless you
> suppress it with a kernel parameter.)
> - it hangs the way I set it up with the negativo17 repo's packaging of the
> proprietary nvidia driver.
> - both hangs are so hard that they destroys the evidence of why the system
> hung.
We have some XPS's and I managed to make them usable (only the suspend
is unreliable) by:
- using the nvidia driver from rpmfusion
- Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4
Ref: /usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia/README.txt
- using lightdm
- customizing 3 files (the name nvidia-optimus is ... historical):
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/nvidia-optimus.conf
/etc/lightdm/nvidia-optimus-setup
Here are the templates I use for those files:
------------------------------ /etc/X11/xorg.conf --------------------
# $Id: xorg.conf,v 1.6 2014/09/29 06:42:12 root Exp $
# Install as: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Adjust the BusID if needed (cf lspci)
# Cf: /usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia/README.txt
# Chapter 33. Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4
# lspci|grep 3D
# 02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] (rev a1)
# # root@nsjura 2014-09-25 09:06:10 /
# => PCI:2:0:0
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "off"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Screen 0 "nvidia"
Inactive "intel"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Device "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "intel"
Device "intel"
EndSection
----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------- /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/nvidia-optimus.conf -----
# $Id: nvidia-optimus.conf,v 1.3 2014/09/29 06:40:18 root Exp $
# Install as: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/nvidia-optimus.conf
[SeatDefaults]
display-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/nvidia-optimus-setup
----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------- /etc/lightdm/nvidia-optimus-setup -------------------
#!/bin/bash -p
# $Id: nvidia-optimus-setup,v 1.5 2015/08/05 15:40:18 fm Exp $
# Install as: /etc/lightdm/nvidia-optimus-setup
# Make it executable: chmod a+x /etc/lightdm/nvidia-optimus-setup
# Adjust the dpi below
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto
# Specific Dell Precision M3800
# 3200x1800 pixels
# Image Size: 346 x 194 mm
xrandr --dpi 234
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francis
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