How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

Joonas Sarajärvi muepsj at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 09:22:25 UTC 2009


I use whatever Fedora uses when it is run in a Qemu/KVM virtual
machine. If I recall correctly, this driver has not yet gained KVM
capabilities.

I wonder why KMS support has been so slow to appear for the simplest devices.

2009/12/23, steven bellens <bellenssteven at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/23 Roger <arelem at bigpond.com>:
>> On 12/23/2009 03:21 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>>
>>> Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver
>>> instead of the nouveau driver.
>>>
>>> If you are using the proprietary nvidia driver or some other non kms
>>> equipped driver, how are you finding F12 ?  Ie do you experience
>>> freezing when you access some panel items ?
>
> I use the proprietary nvidia driver with Fedora core 12 KDE. After
> installing I experienced desktop freezing when accessing the KDE menu,
> which was solved rather quickly by applying the fix of Rex Dieter:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620. I had no problems
> whatsover with the driver combined with KDE afterwards.
>
> Steven
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I use kmod-nvidia in Fedora 11 and akmod-nvidia in Fedora 12 because
>>> Nouveau is useless for 3D applications like Blender and Varicad.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
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