Sunday, November 22, 2009

English Soul Silver Rom

Constantine and Nvidia driver







Yes, it has been around for a few days (goodbye beloved Lion, sigh) and shows some interesting features in terms of usability, whose description is easy to find on the net.

What I hope to test soon, and maybe even write two lines above, is the new management of pulseaudio bluetooth device, with the aim to make Skype calls, or VoIP in general hands-free. But the new
born (in fact, the newborn) occurs, as well as with kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64, now with a nice little problem, those who are a bit 'upset by those like me who are fighting for a very simple Linux and yet very effective: the management of the Nvidia driver. The occasion of a little renewal of the fleet business (not cars, eh :-)) led me to opt for a platform on i5 suitors Intel Asus P7P55D combined with a Nvidia Gainward graphics card 216sp GTX260 1792MB DDR3 Ram , with 6 GB of RAM Corsair PC12000 1600MHz and a pair of Barracuda 7200rpm 32mb to 1 TB each (now with 650 €, looking well, takes all).
Only GTX (an animal, really) left me some concern to management, but the driver 190 (173 as well as updated) rewards promised by the handful.

OK. Assembled PC, download iso (exhaust always three versions: the x86_64, i686 and the live, even if you install only the 64-bit), DVD burn and go installation: quick, clean, in short the usual anaconda :-).

And after installing the system, the first thing I run to see what is it? But how does the booming graphics card, no?
Oh, yeah.
So go with installing yumex repo rpmfusion and that we go to take our beloved driver ....

Surprise: the classics Nvidia drivers are not there, nor in free or nonfree in, or in the update. There is only
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau, and you think: okay, will work the same, no? Have simplified everything. So try to go
ago, say, a FooBillard OpenGL or something, or Compiz Fusion: No, a desert. Maccome with the Geforce Go 7600 laptop everything is great, and with 'I'm no monster snow?
The reason is explained in his blog in Sforna Gianluca

this post.

Moral: Tap install the repo-testing and give the installation manual. So far, okay, a few more steps and lost half an hour to figure out 'is the history of the driver now, long live the open and we hope you no longer need proprietary drivers, but if those are still open for under-performing closed, at least I would expect that these were put into nonfree, update to the limit, but do not have to be stupid to seek it in testing.

the matter closed, is not that the installation is free of risk: the nouveau driver, in fact, much like the uninstall, and could lead to problems, the next time, like "what happened to the desktop manager? ".
To avoid trouble, I suggest you follow this procedure
walking, taking great care to type commands species than predicted, if it were the case of implementing it, the item "If nouveau try Refuses to Die."

To be honest, steps 2 and 3 are unnecessary, if implemented immediately after step 4 1.

Remember, to get quickly to a shell after a boot handle (the graphics drivers should do it with x11 not activated yet), just edit the kernel line of grub (grub lock the counter, select the kernel and Fedora to "e", select the kernel line and give "and") and append the number 3 to send and then "b" to boot.
Take care, precision commands, or after your beloved Dracut Linuxbox could disappear. Good Nvidia.