kmod-nvidia some actions X 100% CPU
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 17:35:10 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 06:21 -0800, Rich Emberson wrote:
> Need to fix kmod-nvidia or uninstall it.
>
> This weekend installed fedora 12 on laptop replacing
> fedora 9.
> Laptop has a GeForce 9600M GT nvidia card.
> With fedora 9, used kmod with no problems.
> After initial install, using the default nouveau
> worked.
> Following: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html
> installed kmod-nvidia.
> edited grub.conf adding "rdblacklist=nouveau" to end of
> kernel line.
> edited /etc/sysconfig/livna-config-display - it already had
> active = True.
>
> rebooted.
> Running Kde many things work with kmod-nvidia but
> now when the "kickoff application launcher" is clicked,
> the CPU goes to 100% all in the the X process. After about
> 15 second, the launcher menu is displayed and can be used.
> So, I'd like to know either how to fix this or how I can
> uninstall kmod-nvidia and go back to the nouveau driver.
>
> Thanks
Known issue.
An Xorg fix broken nVidia binary drivers.
Follow the solution in this [1] bug. (Requires installing the latest
Xorg from koji [or update testing - not sure it's there yet])
- Gilboa
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list