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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 28.11.2008 18:29, 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

Note: Something like that is required by the livna packages (which are 
now in RPM Fusion) for years now. The enable/disable scripts add that 
part to the config files automatically if everything works fine.

IOW: if you just type "yum install kmod-nvidia" it'll just work. If you 
overwrite the config with nvidia-xconfig afterwards then it won't work. 
I hope the current driver maintainer fix that soon. Details:

 > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197

Further: Maintaining the drivers is a whole lot of work. RPM Fusion 
afaics could need some people that help with it -- RPM packaging skills 
would help, but testing packages, helping to fix bugs and writing 
documentation is afaics needed as well. Any volunteers?

CU
knurd