Update : Unless you are playing games or something, I see no reason to use the Nvidia drivers. After I installed the Nvidia drivers the external display was not auto-detected and required a restart of Gnome-shell to recognize the updated config. Once I did that, it started in Gnome-fallback mode? Bummer... So - nouveau is the better option... IMO. I had decided to put Fedora 16 back on my rig. I know this install won't be on this machine long as it has some quirky issues (sudden desktop lockups, WLAN occasionally flakes out, etc... I digress...) I also decided to try the Nvidia proprietary driver, along with using the discrete Nvidia graphics chipset. So - the process was fairly straight-forward. # yum -y update # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm # yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.