Re: NVIDIA / nouveau thread branch [was Re: Fedora 12 QA retrospective - feedback needed]

2009/11/25 Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;: > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:02 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> On 11/25/2009 02:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > and the nvidia kernel module conflicts with >> > the nouveau one. >> >> There is no conflict. I'm not sure why RPMFusion is recommending >> rebuilding your initramfs. It is completely unnecessary. > > Uh? If the nouveau kernel module is loaded, the nvidia kernel module > refuses to load, complaining that another module is in control of the > hardware. I've seen multiple people report this. I haven't seen anyone > who's got the NVIDIA driver working if the nouveau module is loaded. I think it's possible, but it's random. In some case, it works, in others not. Once that said, I saw that it could be possible to use nouveau.modeset=0 on the grub line. I never tried that solution, but the perspective to have two differents driver loaded at the same time for one hardware just scared me. IIRC nvidia-installer (not nvidia.ko) has detection routine to know if nvidiafb is loaded, because it has produced well knwon incompatiblities from the past. I wonder if they have updated it for nouveau. Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart)