Installing latest proprietary driver for NVidia

[isadora]

Today i installed the NVIDIA-drivers through MCC.

De laptop has real poor performance right now.

The package installed:

 

x11-driver-video-nvidia-current - NVIDIA proprietary X.org driver and libraries for GeForce 6 and later cards​

Version: 177.80-3mdv2009.0

Currently installed version: 177.80-3mdv2009.0

Group: System/Kernel and hardware

Architecture: x86_64

 

Afterwards i had the graphical card configured through XFdrake, as described, all went just fine.

 

Didn't change any kernel after the latest kernel-server-update.

 

The xorg.conf shows up the nvidia-driver (so no nv).

Wonder what is on?

 

 

rpm -qa | grep kernel

kernel-firmware-2.6.27-2mnb2

kernel-server-devel-2.6.27.4-1mnb-1-1mnb2

nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.27.4-server-1mnb-177.70-2.3mdv2009.0

kernel-server-latest-2.6.27.4-1mnb2

nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.27-server-0.rc8.2mnb-177.70-1mdv2009.0

kernel-server-devel-2.6.27-0.rc8.2mnb-1-1mnb2

kernel-server-2.6.27-0.rc8.2mnb-1-1mnb2

kernel-server-2.6.27.4-1mnb-1-1mnb2

nvidia-current-kernel-server-latest-177.70-1.20081103.2.3mdv2009.0

kernel-headers-2.6.27-4mnb2

kernel-server-devel-latest-2.6.27.4-1mnb2

Edited November 6, 2008 by isadora

[isadora]

I just ran /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig.

It sait it ruled out one line where "Disabled" was given, made a new xorg.conf.

After this i restarted and everything went smoothly, i can say, like a rocket.

 

 

I try to find out what really has been changed in the xorg.conf file, and report to you.

[isadora]

My new xorg.conf:

 

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Oct 1 15:12:53 PDT 2008

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Layout0"

Screen 0 "Screen0"

InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

EndSection

 

Section "Files"

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe"

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "kbd"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"

VendorName "Unknown"

ModelName "Unknown"

HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0

VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "Device0"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Device0"

Monitor "Monitor0"

DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

EndSubSection

EndSection

[isadora]

My old (former) xorg.conf:

 

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 247269)

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

#DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Disable "dri"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "kbd"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us(alt-intl)"

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "SynapticsMouse1"

Driver "synaptics"

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "nVidia Corporation"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and later"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "DPMS"

Option "RenderAccel" "false"

Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "SendCoreEvents"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

 

 

So as far as i can imagine something went wrong in the line with Disable "dri"?

Edited November 6, 2008 by isadora