Unix Revolution

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...

Solution :  I tried to use the Discrete video adapter (non-Optimus) and load the akmod-nvidia driver.  This, however, does not fix the problem :-(  Install the Compiz goodness and run that as your Display Manager.  I actually don't mind Gnome3 now.... bordering on almost liking it.  I certainly hope they get their stuff together soon. # Install Compiz yum -y install compiz.x86_64 compiz-bcop.noarch compiz-devel.x86_64 compiz-gconf.x86_64 compiz-gnome.x86_64 compiz-gtk.x86_64 compiz-manager.noarch compiz-plugins-main.x86_64 compiz-plugins-main-devel.x86_64 compiz-plugins-main-gconf.x86_64 compizconfig-backend-gconf.x86_64 compizconfig-python.x86_64 libcompizconfig.x86_64 libcompizconfig-devel.x86_64 UPDATE :  The problems continues using the Nvidia driver and discrete display adapter.  Unfortunately I can not handle this type of issue on my primary workstation and therefore I am migrating to RHEL 6.2 workstation. Issue :  My system...