Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head
Michael Semcheski
mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 20:15:34 UTC 2009
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kirk Lowery
<empirical.humanist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've played around with all the settings, googled for the problem, no joy. I
> even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would only recognize one
> monitor. Besides, the LiveCD did TheRightThing(tm), so it ought to work.
I've been playing around with nvidia cards on a number of machines the
last couple of days, and there is a gotcha with the RPM Fusion Nvidia
drivers.
That is, if nouveua is loaded, the nvidia driver won't work. So, I
would say, dump one or the other. Either remove kmod-nvidia, or
blacklist nouveau, as shown on this page:
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/
(one caveat about this page)*
If you look at dmesg, and see a bunch of nvidia related errors, try
blacklisting nouveau.
* My caveat about those instructions... I found that I had to make
sure the nouveau driver didn't load with grub, which involves running
dracut after adding rdblacklist=nouveau to grub.conf. Looking at
things now, some of my problems may be due to misspelling nouveau.
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