Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 28 22:17:39 UTC 2008


Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I
> learned.
>
> The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file.  It might
> not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly with
> say a livna sourced driver. 
>
> Specifically, it needs this to be present:
>
> Section "Files" 
> 	ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" 
> 	ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" 
> EndSection
>
> Right now I am unsure if the xorg or nvidia xorg.conf configuration
> tools will put both these lines in the xorg.conf file.  I doubt they do,
> actually.
>
> You can read more about this issue here:
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197
>
> I hope this helps someone.
>
>   
Rpmfusion is also missing the xine package.




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