On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com wrote:
With that said, a couple of questions: 0. Please post your hardware configuration.
GPU: GeForce GTX 275 Intel i5 8GB RAM
I've got a two machines using GTX 2xx cards. HW should be safe, I reckon.
- Have you followed the nVidia HOW FAQ?
On that page it says PAE. I am using 64bit of Fedora 17, should I use PAE?
x86_64 is 64bit. No need for PAE. (yum install kmod-nvidia etc)
I am not sure which drivers should I install. I tried both kmod and akmod from Yumex (one by one and at both times boots into Fedora and the screen get stuck with above mentioned em1: link becomes ready)
- Have you made sure nouveau is *disabled* in grub?
No.
Big no-no. nouveau collides with the nVidia binary driver. This alone might explain the issues you are facing.
1. Install the nVidia binary drivers. $ yum install -y kmod-nvidia.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 (You can remove the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 part if you don't need 32bit support)
2. Edit /etc/default/grub 2a. Locate a line that contains "rhdb quiet" 2b, Right after the quiet, add: rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 (I usually also add vga=xxxx to get a nicer login screen. E.g. If your display is capable of displaying 1024x768 you can add vga=0x317)
3. Once done, rebuild the grub2 configuration. $ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
4. Reboot.
- Why are you using akmods-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia? Any
particular reason for "build" the RPMs locally?
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/315/what-is-the-difference-between-an-...
In general akmods are only needed if you plan to deploy self-built / testing kernels.
- akmod-nvidia requires time to finish building the RPMs, have you
tried giving it some time to finish?
Yes, Yumex showed it completed.
akmods run *every* boot as a service.
- Gilboa