How to verify nvidia drivers working
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Fri Jan 8 02:40:17 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:56 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> 2010/1/8 steve <networks1 at cox.net>:
> >
> > I guess that means I don’t have the drivers installed after all :-)
> >
>
> First, make sure you have it installed correctly.
>
> If you are running 64 bit and have added the RPMFusion repositories, then run:
> su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64'
>
> If you're running 32 bit, then add the RPMFusion repo and run:
> su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'
>
> This will install required libs and blacklist nouveau driver.
>
> If you had kernel based modesetting enabled, then re-build your
> initial ram disk:
> su -c 'dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)'
No need to rebuild. I just installed akmod-nvidia (the 64-bit one) and
added "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. You
can add "nomodeset", but I didn't need to. This is a 64-bit F12.
>
> Update your modules database:
> su -c 'depmod -ae'
>
> Create an nvidia xorg.conf:
> su -c 'nvidia-xconfig'
Didn't need to do these either.
>
> Reboot.
>
> -c
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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