Script for vesa & nouveau & nvidia drivers ??

[William Case]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:59:40 -0400
> William Case wrote:
> 
> > If you have any guidance or gotcha's that are worth mentioning before I
> > write such a script, your wisdom would be appreciated.
> 
> If you are using the rpmfusion nvidia driver, it is quite
> difficult to turn off without uninstalling it. It installs
> the "nvidia" service that runs at init time to
> force xorg.conf point at the nvidia driver.
> 

I am using the rpmfusion nvidia driver.  

> If you just want to make sure you have an nvidia driver
> that matches your kernel, I never had a problem with
> installing akmod-nvidia. All it does is build the driver
> rpm and install it if it isn't already installed.
> 

I never had a problem with akmod-nvidia either.  I have been using it
for a least a year now -- until the 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 kernel
and the 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64 kernel. They wouldn't rebuild but
my system would default to the vesa driver after akmod-nvidia was
removed.  The 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 kernel works fine.

> For me it always worked fine. If the rpmfusion repos were
> up to date, I'd get the kmod-nvidia from the repo when
> I updated, if they weren't up to date, I'd take longer
> to boot and I'd get the rpm the akmod built for me.
> 

I removed the akmod-nvidia and reinstalled, just to see.  On rebooting,
both the .7 and the .8 kernels freeze during init with "r8169: eth0:
link up" showing on an otherwise blank screen.  I have waited for over 5
minutes for the kernel(s) to rebuild but my machine just remained
inactive.

That is why I started to use "nouveau".  With akmod-nvidia removed and
"nouveau" as the device driver, everything worked.  Well, kinda!

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1