Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3
- From: Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:56:02 +0200
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:39:12AM +0000, Mark Eggers wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:25:51 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who (maybe) have the
same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in a Dell Dimension E520 and have
also experienced (and maybe solved) this problem.
Suggestions on how to solve the problem (if possible) are also welcome.
This is long (as usual).
My current environment:
Platform: Upgraded Dell 8200
CPU: 2.6 GHz P4
Memory: 1.5 GB
Video: 7600 GS (overclocked)
Driver: 275.09.07 (from NVidia)
Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 23" DVI at 1680x1050x24
OS: Fedora 15
It's not quite the same card as yours, but close. Unfortunately this is
an AGP system, so there may be some differences. I've not included my
driver options to enable AGP side band addressing, since that would be
pointless for a PCI-e card.
This works reasonably well for WindowMaker, KDE, and Gnome 3.
Thanks for the long reply.
So evidently you are running Gnome 3 using an AGP 7600 GS with
the Nvidia driver. 7600 GS should not be too different from the 7300 LE
unless the AGP vs PCIe makes a (big) difference.
But I have already wasted more than a few days exploring the problem
so I am not going to use the Nvidia installer to set up the Nvidia driver
to see if that makes a difference (which I doubt).
I installed Fed15/Gnome3 and encountered the irritatingly slow
performance of the nouveau driver and the occasional freezes.
I then used the Rpmfusion kmod and akmod rpms to install the
Nvidia driver. That resulted in the desktop freeze problem.
I googled myself blue in the face to see if anybody had suggested
anything to solve the problem.
When that didn't work I installed Fed15/LXDE and used the Rpmfusion rpms
to install the Nvidia driver. Everything worked perfectly!
To my mind this suggests that Selinux is definitely not involved
(unless there is some Gnome 3 Selinux peculiarity).
To be even more sure I now installed Fed15/KDE and used the Rpmfusion
drivers to install the Nvidia drivers. Again everything worked
perfectly! So I suspect there is some Gnome3/Nvidia conflict.
When the new Nvidia drivers were issued a few days ago I again
installed Fed15/Gnome3 (I don't like KDE very much anyway) to
try the new drivers. No luck again. The same desktop freeze!
I then group installed LXDE from a console screen and shall
continue using LXDE until either a new nouveau driver is available
or I hear of some trick to get Nvidia working with Gnome 3 or
Nvidia issues a new driver that does work with Gnome 3.
Luckily I can taste the forbidden Gnome 3 fruit on my laptop
with Intel graphics.
I am a little bit ambiguous about the taste :-)
Alexander
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