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Today's Topics:

1. Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi) (Peter Hemmings)
2. Re: Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi) (Amias Channer)
3. Re: Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi) (Neil Baker)
4. Re: Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
(peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:48:53 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
Message-ID: <563CCBE5.4010009@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
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Hi, I was going to try to get Kodi working on my Fedora 22 box and the
installation stated it should not be run with the default Nouveux
driver, is this correct as I am having trouble installing the old 340
driver from NVidea!?

I have downloaded the driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run" and as
root, tried to run it from the command line, (I thought) I had booted
into run level 3 but it complained that I still had Nouveux driver, so
I assume I was not booting correctly even though I did not have a GUI!

Regards

--
Peter H



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:58:44 +0000
From: Amias Channer <me@amias.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
Message-ID:
<CAMgU7XUJL1RXwC1hCKkx93C7SHHdX0YYmcWzo3ZJv7R+-LJ6pA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Peter,

You might need to blacklist the nouveau driver.

sudo -i
echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau-for-nvidia-install

Then reboot and try the install again. You can then remove it later.

This guide looks legit:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/


Cheers
Amias

On 6 November 2015 at 15:48, Peter Hemmings
<peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, I was going to try to get Kodi working on my Fedora 22 box and the
> installation stated it should not be run with the default Nouveux driver,
> is this correct as I am having trouble installing the old 340 driver from
> NVidea!?
>
> I have downloaded the driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run" and as root,
> tried to run it from the command line, (I thought) I had booted into run
> level 3 but it complained that I still had Nouveux driver, so I assume I
> was not booting correctly even though I did not have a GUI!
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Peter H
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bristol mailing list
> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:15:01 +0000
From: Neil Baker <neil@sgsr.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
Message-ID: <563CD205.8050102@sgsr.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

On 06/11/15 15:48, Peter Hemmings wrote:
> Hi, I was going to try to get Kodi working on my Fedora 22 box and the
> installation stated it should not be run with the default Nouveux
> driver, is this correct as I am having trouble installing the old 340
> driver from NVidea!?
>
> I have downloaded the driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run" and as
> root, tried to run it from the command line, (I thought) I had booted
> into run level 3 but it complained that I still had Nouveux driver, so
> I assume I was not booting correctly even though I did not have a GUI!
>
> Regards
>

You might also need to go 'old school' and create an Xorg.conf file.
--
Neil Baker.
Tel: 0117 960 3967.
Mob: 07974 748913.

Experience: knowing what not to do.



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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:40:39 +0300
From: peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Nvidea Driver instead of Nouveux (Kodi)
Message-ID: <1446831639.598048762@f1.my.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"


Thanks Amias/Neil,? the instructions seem better than the one I was trying!
Will try over the weekend and let you know of success or otherwise!
--
Peter H
Sent from myMail app for Android Friday, 06 November 2015, 03:58pm +00:00 from Amias Channer < me@amias.net> :

>Hello Peter,
>
>You might need to blacklist the nouveau driver.
>
>sudo -i
>echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau-for-nvidia-install
>
>Then reboot and try the install again. You can then remove it later.
>
>This guide looks legit:
>http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/
>
>
>Cheers
>Amias
>
>On 6 November 2015 at 15:48, Peter Hemmings
>< peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk > wrote:
>> Hi, I was going to try to get Kodi working on my Fedora 22 box and the
>> installation stated it should not be run with the default Nouveux driver,
>> is this correct as I am having trouble installing the old 340 driver from
>> NVidea!?
>>
>> I have downloaded the driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.run" and as root,
>> tried to run it from the command line, (I thought) I had booted into run
>> level 3 but it complained that I still had Nouveux driver, so I assume I
>> was not booting correctly even though I did not have a GUI!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Peter H
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bristol mailing list
>> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
>
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