What is the best driver for NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 960 M
I had a bad experience when I decided to install nvidia driver. I had lost my fedora and reinstalled it again. Now I want to install an appropriate driver on my fedora. From RPM Fusion, lsmod |grep nouveau
command should not have output, but my ASUS N552VW returns the following output:
[martin@Device-BB9E28 ~]$ lsmod |grep nouveau
nouveau 1605632 0
ttm 94208 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 nouveau,i915
drm_kms_helper 151552 2 nouveau,i915
drm 348160 33 nouveau,i915,ttm,drm_kms_helper
wmi 20480 3 asus_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 40960 4 asus_wmi,int3406_thermal,nouveau,i915
The out put for /sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA
says there are 2 graphic card from NVIDIA (gpu) and Intel (integrated) as follows:
[martin@Device-BB9E28 ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
[martin@Device-BB9E28 ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep -e 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
[martin@Device-BB9E28 ~]$
Moreover, when I want to reboot my system it seems some thing goes wrong and my system waits and my CPU goes hot (I can turn it off and turn it on again). BTW, when I use nomodeset
parameter my fedora reboot in basic graphic mode.
I remember, when I installed nvidia driver I only had one 16:9 resolution and I decided to change the nvidia driver that fucked my system. This was the background story that might annoy other fedora users too.
Now I want to solve my driver problem and need experts to help me. One suggested solution is Optimus that is quiet easy. Is there any other suggestion? can some one help me to install it appropriately if there are some risks. I don't want to reinstall my fedora again. If some one can provide step by step installing command here would be appreciated.
If it's not necessary to install nvidia driver is there any way to fix nouveau driver?
nouveau is open source, a port of the nvidia driver, but missing key features and good hardware acceleration. is the nvidia the only card in the laptop or do you also have integrated graphics from intel? if nvidia is the only one, I would recommend proprietary nvidia for best performance. Installed with dkms enabled, kernel updates are set to automatically build new driver modules. I run 384.59, the latest from nvidia, for linux 64 bit. I just updated to Kernel 4.12-5 today, with no problems.
I have both NVIDIA and Intel integrated graphic
how can I install 384.59 version? by default I installed 375 then I decided to install 384.59 and my fedora was fucked
I have added nouveau to black list in both grub and blacklist.conf and every thing goes smoothly. The output of /sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA (in the question) is added after this operation