[Fedora 12] NVida drivers from

[Neal Becker]

On Thursday 19 November 2009, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello Everyone
> I have the following RPM's installed on my fully updated Fedora 12 system:
> kmod-nvidia.x86_64   190.42-1.fc12.4   @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64   190.42-2.fc12  
>  @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64  
>  190.42-2.fc12   @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates- testing
> 
> I followed the directions contained at
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-0a6074ea13626b48d876f75be3ae971044b0
> 019e
> 
> the appropriate part for me being:
> > Fedora 12
> > Note: nVidia currently doesn't support cards older than Geforce6 on the
> > xorg-x11-server used by Fedora 12. Please verify that the nouveau driver
> > will fit your needs while upgrading.
> >
> > In order to keep compatibility with nouveau, you need to recreate the
> > initrd manually after the driver has been installed.
> >
> > su -
> > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname
> > -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
> > Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so
> > SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.
> >
> > setsebool -P allow_execstack on
> 
> I did not need to follow the part about SElinux, because I have that
>  disabled.
> 
> My problem is that now certain (as opposed to all) things seem to be a lot
>  less responsive than they used to be.  I am comparing running the NVidia
>  driver from rpmfusion under Fedora 11 to my current Fedora 12 setup.  I
>  had NEVER seen even the little annoyances that I am going to describe...
> 
> I am running the KDE that ships with Fedora 12.  When I press "Alt | F2",
>  the "Run Command" box takes about 10 seconds to appear.  If I type
>  "konsole" in the "Run Command" box, it takes 5 or more seconds to start. 
>  Until "Run Command" comes up, I have to wait before I can use the computer
>  for anything else.
> 
> I have just disabled "Desktop Effects" and there is no change to this
>  behavior. Again, I never had this problem with Fedora 11.  Also, I did not
>  have this problem on Fedora 12 until I installed the NVidia driver from
>  rpmfusion.
> 
> If there is an easy way to restart my system without the rpmfusion NVidia
> driver, I will be glad to try that and see if my problem goes away.  I
>  would
> 
> rather not try to undo the following:
> > su -
> > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname
> > -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
> 
> As far as my system is concerned...
> Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz QuadCore
> Memory: 8 Gigabytes
> Video Card: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94
>  [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
> 
> The video card itself has 512MB of memory.  Also, only about 806MB of RAM
>  is being used right now, and my four cores are running MOSTLY around 0%,
>  with one of them spiking for a moment or so up to about 10-12%.  So it's
>  not like my system is seriously overloaded :)  But again, with this same
>  exact system, I never have seen an issue like this under Fedora 11, or
>  before I installed the NVidia drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing.
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 

I think you're seeing the same bug I just reported.  Look for this message: 
trouble with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-2.fc12.x86_64