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NVIDIA Quadro and Gnome-Shell in Fedora 14

I would really appreciate some direction with an issue I am currently experiencing. Truthfully, I am unsure where to begin to resolve it, I also am not confident I am posting this in the correct forum.

I am running Fedora 14 on a Dell Latitude D620. It is not a powerful laptop, but meets my personal programming interests. From what I have read, the video card is pretty low end, and that my be the heart of the issue.

The video card is NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M, and I used the package kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs, following the instructions found here:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...ouveau-driver/

It seemed to be quite successful, Compiz worked well when I enabled it. GLXGears was giving a fps that was on par with what I found online for the same card.

I decided to give gnome-shell a shot, and really like it. However, when I attempt to run it when hooked up to an external monitor, choosing Separate X Windows, gnome-shell fails to load after login. It seemingly freezes as it attempts to load and both screens are blank.

I disabled Xinerama, and after login, the system gets a bit farther, it loads the wallpaper on both screens but the begins flickering repeatedly. It does not load anything, just sits there.

I am trying to figure out where to begin to troubleshoot this, if there is a log I should be looking at, essentially anything I can use to plug into Google and see if I can correct the issue. Again, maybe my video card simply cannot handle two monitors in gnome-shell.

Any thoughts and direction would be greatly appreciated.

that how to is ? close?
you might want to use fedora's guide
"F15,F14, F13 & F12 Nvidia driver guides "
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

to troubleshoot you might want to start with the nvidia set up tool that was installed
" NVIDIA X Server Settings "
it is in the menu someplace
BUT needs to be ran as root ( a pop up should ask for root password )
or run

Code:

su -

root password  when asked 

nvidia-settings

there you can set the second display

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV (Post 4352769)

Code:

su -

root password  when asked 

nvidia-settings

there you can set the second display

Well, the guide you listed is the exact same as the one I used, with one exception. The guide you linked states:

Code:

su

grep gnome-session-c /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M nvidiaisbroken

semodule -i nvidiaisbroken.pp

The guide says it is intended to fix a selinux issue that prevents gnome-shell from starting. This sounds like what I need, however, when I attempt to run it I get the error:

Code:

compilation failed:

nvidiaisbroken.te:6:ERROR 'syntax error' at token '' on line 6:





/usr/bin/checkmodule:  error(s) encountered while parsing configuration

/usr/bin/checkmodule:  loading policy configuration from nvidiaisbroken.te

As for your second part, I am using the nvidia-settings to enable the external monitor. Both monitors work fine in my XFCE session, both monitors work fine in Gnome when I have Compiz running, it is when I attempt to log into a gnome session with gnome-shell checked that the session fails to load and my system locks up.

I will try and figure out the error message above, any other helpful suggestions? Thanks!

lets see that SELinux error is for the still in testing fedora 15 ( there is not yet a rule for it yet seeing as 15 is still in testing )

and only needed IF "SELinuxTroubleShooter" poped up wit that there is an error

XFCE session ? did you uninstall gnome ? if so that is a bad idea fedora NEEDS most of gnome to run
even the kde re-spin has some of gnome

what version of fedora you install and WHAT did you install?

I am running Fedora 14, I have not removed Gnome in any way. I did install the XFCE desktop environment, I switch between sessions using the Login Manager. I have been using different desktop environments since I started using Linux ten years ago, never really settling on a single option. I also have E17 installed. I was rather glad I had these options, since gnome-shell freezes when it tries to load, hence my first post.

I have a variety of applications installed, I really doubt they have any impact on the issue. So, let me make it bit clearer:

XFCE -- both NVIDIA driver and external monitor work fine
Gnome with Compiz as Desktop Effects -- both NVIDIA driver and external monitor work fine
Gnome with gnome-shell -- Freezes immediately after login

Something in gnome-shell is either crashing or failing to load, and I posted in the forum with the suspicion my video card is the issue.

I'm not having much success searching Google, and think it is simply because I am not sure what to search for.