On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:15:57AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Your understanding is, on the whole, correct. However, you
can always
>> use akmod-nvidia instead. If there's not a kmod for the current kernel,
>> akmod builds it on the fly at boot. It's not a panacea by any means,
>> but for most of us, it's much better than having to remember to
>> re-install the binary blob every time there's a kernel update.
>The real question is, is the nvidia blob still necessary? In
F15, the
>nouveau driver has 3D acceleration enabled by default. Performance
>might not be all the way to the nvidia drivers, but GNOME Shell runs in
>standard mode with the default nouveau driver. That should at least
>tide you over until the nvidia packages catch up.
I don't use nvidia's blob, but nouveau's stability is
still not
consistent. Maybe about 10% of the time X locks up when I open
gthumb. If I ssh in and kill X, Gnome will whine and go into
fallback mode. I must reboot to regain hardware acceleration.
It's not a big deal to me, especially as compared to the rest of the
issues with gnome 3, but I can see how some might prefer to stick
with nvidia.
It might not be a big deal but the lock ups, though not very
frequent, sometimes occur at very inopportune moments.
Also irritating is the snails pace at which graphical actions
happen.
But I am not complaining since the situation, in my case at least,
is even more irritating with regard to nvidia.
I have tried with both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia and done everything
according to the book but I really wonder if the installation scripts
from rpmfusion are 100% adapted to fed 15. The installation just
can't get rid of the nouveau modules so you just boot up to the
'desktop' but mouse and keyboard can't activate anything.
I even tried some contortions with respect to initram, etc. but
to no avail.
A couple of years ago I had no problems with rpmfusion kmod-nvidia's
Alexander