Re: NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

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On 10/31/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Roo schrieb:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:23:28 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it I installed
>> NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6 On reboot, it gets all the
>> way to the second X start and the screen then just goes black and
>> nothing happens I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing
>> "a" when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt - that
>> didn't work Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
>> same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just a black
>> screen Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result Anyone else
>> encountered this?
>
> It's a known problem with the beta drivers. You need this:
>
> modprobe -r eeprom
>
> as root, before X starts.

Is it that bad that we (livna developers) should integrate that into the
package? Anyone interested in doing that?

It would prolly make alot more sense to integrate the driver patch
which fixes the bug:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=996233&postcount=20


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