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I've been trying to get NVIDIA drivers running on my laptop with success only if I disable SELinux. I'm using the drivers from NVIDIA's web site and can install them with SELinux enabled, but X crashes unless I set SELinux to Permissive.
I know others have had the same problems and many have simply disabled SELinux - is that such a good idea?? I've also tried chcon -t textrel_shlib_t on the files that SELinux finds offensive, without success.
I have SELinux running on fedora, and installed the nvidia drivers through YUM... No problems at all.
SELinux hasn't given me any trouble since Suse, 2 years back. But I don't think you are putting yourself at great risk if you leave it at 'permissive' or even disable it completely.
I'm currently running F7 test 3 and will probably pull down F8 when it hits the streets. Will the rpms at livna.org be up to date for F8? Are the rebuilt on the fly?
If you can wait another 3 days until F8 is out, then you don't have to worry about that
I don't think it would cause problems. I have installed the nvidia driver from linva, and after that switched to the realtime kernel, and to my suprise I did not boot up into the command line - apparently it added the appropriate nvidia kernel modules as dependency. So I guess it will do the same if there is a new kernel for F8.
But still, why bother taking a risk...
Yes, I will probably wait to do much more until F8 comes out. I've been working with F7t3 just to get a handle on the likely issues. So far, so good - I can get wireless working, NVIDIA (with only the SELINUX dependency), and all of my favorite software up and running. Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday.... 8^)
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