On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kirk Lowery
<empirical.humanist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've played around with all the settings, googled for the
problem, no joy. I
even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would only recognize one
monitor. Besides, the LiveCD did TheRightThing(tm), so it ought to work.
I've been playing around with nvidia cards on a number of machines the
last couple of days, and there is a gotcha with the RPM Fusion Nvidia
drivers.
That is, if nouveua is loaded, the nvidia driver won't work. So, I
would say, dump one or the other. Either remove kmod-nvidia, or
blacklist nouveau, as shown on this page:
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/
(one caveat about this page)*
If you look at dmesg, and see a bunch of nvidia related errors, try
blacklisting nouveau.
* My caveat about those instructions... I found that I had to make
sure the nouveau driver didn't load with grub, which involves running
dracut after adding rdblacklist=nouveau to grub.conf. Looking at
things now, some of my problems may be due to misspelling nouveau.