kmod-nvidia didn't make it into F12 repos?

[Mario Chacon]

I've seen the workaround for Nvidia proprietary drivers and it works
great!!..I hope that Fedora team can fix the noveau/vesa/Xorg issue and my
video card.

thank you.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Mario Chacon <the.masch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to do a workaround to use it??..Nouveau is not working too,
> it have an error too(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530520).
> How can I use my machine?? .. I cant' use it at all.
>
> Thank you.
> salu2...
> masch...
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/11/21 Adam Williamson <adamwill at shaw.ca>:
>> > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:10 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 04:21:40 pm Chris Nolan wrote:
>> >> > A few people (me included) are wondering what has happened to
>> >> > kmod-nvidia in F12? Did it get missed somehow or is there a problem
>> with
>> >> >  it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Chris
>> >>
>> >> If you read the announcement email, they are in updates-testing because
>> some
>> >> sort of manual step is required.
>> >
>> > Some notes on this.
>> >
>> > So, it seems the manual steps required are a) rebuild the initramfs -
>> > I'm assuming the nvidia packages somehow configure things so that
>> > nouveau doesn't get pulled into the initramfs any more and b) change
>> > SELinux configuration to disable executable stack protection.
>> >
>> > on b), a clean F12 install has these relevant SELinux settings:
>> If you want to be on any help on b) please review the nvidia-settings
>> and nvidia-xconfig.
>>
>> on a) that part isn't planned to be solved before the introduction of
>> the new packaging scheme.
>> Whereas it could have been safe to regenerate the initrd on install
>> (it's not actually as we have seen mkinitrd update that then failed to
>> create a valid initrd.img), it's even more probable that a dracut
>> plugin get installed whereas it shouldn't have, leading to a failure
>> in generation of a valid initramfs.
>>
>> Now if some want to write a dracut module to handle that propertly,
>> experimentation is always open. And I wish I can hear feedback on
>> this.
>> For the record, what handle the initrd regeneration is to create a
>> blacklist-nouveau.conf in /etc/modprobe.d
>> The same is also needed for radeon and fglrx.
>>
>> Nicolas (kwizart)
>>
>
>
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