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[Luke Hollins]

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Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning

[Luke Hollins]

Note that many Optimus notebooks do work in Optimus mode using the
NVIDIA driver, without using Bumblebee. From that NVIDIA page you linked
to: "*Some* designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible
with the NVIDIA Linux driver".


On 11/13/2014 04:08 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
> "optimus laptops" with Nvidia grafics, like the Acer Aspire E15, which
> I have,  are not supported by Nvidia. See the currently final answer
> of the Nvidia support below:
> --
> In that case, unfortunately the NVIDIA Linux driver won't work for
> normal display purposes.
> We document this Optimus limitation under the 'Additional Information'
> tab at the driver download page here:
> http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/79413/en-us
> Some users have had success with the open source bumblebee driver, but
> NVIDIA does not support bumblebee.
> -
> Kind Regards
>
>
> -Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-
> Von: Reynold 
> An: test 
> Verschickt: Di, 11 Nov 2014 6:48 pm
> Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
> partitioning
>
> How to manually install NVIDIA graphics driver
>
> using yum or dnf (I prefer dnf so I will use that)
>
> #dnf clean all
> #dnf update
> #dnf install gcc kernel-devel dkms
>
> download NVIDIA driver from nvidia.com and cd to the download directory
> #chmod +x NVIDIA-XXX.run (the NVIDIA driver, for instance 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
>
> #vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and insert a line with text 
> "blacklist nouveau" (without quotes)
> #vi /etc/sysconfig/grub and insert this text 
> "rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau" (without quotes) and the end
> of the line beginning with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= making sure the text is 
> inside the last quotation mark
>
> #grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> #dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86x_64 (this is 64bit driver - if you 
> have a 32bit operating system it will be 32bit driver)
>
> #reboot
>
> When you are in grub and the and your operating system kernel is 
> highlighted as the one you are booting to press the "e" on the keyboard 
> to edit the line
> Then at the end of this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= still inside 
> the ending quotes insert this text "init 3" (without quotes)
> press F10 to reboot
>
> you should then come to a command prompt where you log on as a root user
> cd to the download directory where the NVIDIA driver located
> #./NVIDIA-XXX.run (for instance ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.13.run)
> The NVIDIA installer will start
> Accept the license agreement
> Install 32 bit compatibility (if you are on a 64bit machine)
> Choose to automatically update nvidia-xconfig-utility
>
> reboot and log into graphical mode or from command line using root init 5
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Reynold
>
> On 11/10/2014 11:49 PM, Bidski wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you instruct me in how you installed the nVidia drivers?
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From:
> > "Joerg Lechner" mailto:julech...@aol.com>>
> >
> > To:
> > mailto:bid...@iinet.net.au>>, 
> > mailto:test@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
> > Cc:
> >
> > Sent:
> > Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:18:35 -0500
> > Subject:
> > Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination partitioning
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > on my laptop there is a Nvidia Geforce 840M (Acer Aspire E15, E5
> > 571G). I didn't have any problems with the grafics drivers so far.
> > Currently running F21 Final TC1.
> > Kind Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > -Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-
> > Von: Bidski mailto:bid...@iinet.net.au>>
> > An: test  > >
> > Verschickt: Mo, 10 Nov 2014 10:05 pm
> > Betreff: Re: F21 Installation Issues - Installation destination
> > partitioning
> >
> >
> > Has anyone had success installing the nVidia drivers in F21 yet?
> > I am meeting some strange issues following the instructions for
> > installing them in F20. Including this page
> > (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9de7q9llhlamf32/IMG_20141110_192627.jpg?dl=0)
> > displaying while booting after installing the drivers.
> >
> > I will generate some better diagnostics tonight.
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From:
> > "Adam Williamson"  > 
> >  > >>
> >
> > To:
> > "Bidski" mailto:bid...@iinet.net.au> 
> > >>,
> > "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases"
> > mailto:test@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >  > >>
> > Cc:
> >
> > Sent:
> > Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:38:19 -0800
> > Subject:
> > Re: F21