On 05/02/2010 11:14 AM, john wendel wrote:
I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to
be
very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver
that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like
"don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chuckle or two.
After starting, a "helpful" pop-up told me that I needed the Nvidia
driver if I wanted 3D acceleration and certain other (unspecified)
enhancements. It offered to install the driver (after explaining why it
was BAD from a free software perspective), so I said OK. I was then
offered a choice from the 3 driver versions, without any explanation of
which one I needed (I needed the 173 version), and the "recommended"
version was the latest (195 version). STRIKE 1! I selected the 173
version and clicked the "activate" button. After some
downloading/installing, I was told that I needed to restart the system
to use the new driver. IT'S A LIVE CD FOLKS! Restarting of course wiped
out the new driver download. STRIKE2! So, I did the download again and
this time instead of restarting the system, I just restarted X. Luckily,
I know how to kill and restart X because there is no newbie friendly
menu selection to do this. Of course, it didn't work because the Nouveau
driver got loaded first and kept the Nvidia driver from loading. STRIKE
3! I'm out.
Of course, with an installed version of Ubuntu, this process would
probably have worked fine. I really wish the best for Ubuntu, but I
think I'll stick with Fedora.
Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
John
Please read this
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc39...
TWO things must be done
To use the default initrd, but disable the nouveau driver, edit
/etc/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the line(s) starting
with 'kernel':
rdblacklist=nouveau
Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so
SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.
setsebool -P allow_execstack on
Thats that
Read the documentation here