Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:10 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
zotkop wrote:
Only 4 hours left till the release of Fedora 8.
Am I right?
Could be that I had some miscalculations (I'm @ gmt +1)
With love from Belgium,
The impatient
Well I installed F8 and the trouble started. It booted fine but as
usual the Nvidia was all bad.
Please define all bad?
Did you get a working X display?
Were you using the OSS driver or were you using the nVidia-supplied
binary driver?
I had to write the proper things in
/etc/X11/file that got the pointer working.
Pointer?
Then I had to mount my F7 to
F8 and copy the Nvidia bash file to F8 and on the 8th reboot F8 came up
fine with the proper image size ect.
OK. I gather that you are using the binary driver.
... If you have problems with the binary driver, please report it to
nvnews.net [1].
But then the worst possible grub bug showed up! I tried to boot to F7
but it was impossible :-(
After a few tests I discovered that the F7 boot partition was
(hd0,5) and the F8 boot partition was (hd0,5). I tried to get F7 booted
but no luck. I finally unplugged the god dam SATA hard drive, re-did the
grub thing from the rescue CD and here I am back on F7 :-)
The Grub problem is because both boot partitions are partition 6. I
will fix this tomorrow.
I assume that both are sitting on different disks, right?
Be aware that if they are on two different disks, minor changes in the
BIOS (read: boot from disk 0 vs boot from CDROM) might change the disk
order that is being supplied -by the BIOS- causing you to boot from the
wrong disk.
There will be a bug written on the poor ability of F8 to work on a
computer with Nvidia VGA system even though anaconda found the proper
VGA and called it Nvidia.
What is the nature of bug?
X doesn't start? X goes down after a while? garbled display?
Anaconda found that my computer has a Nvidia VGA hardware and even
called it the right model! I was happy and hoped it would carry on but
when I rebooted it has the same 800X600 off center x-windows that it had
with F7 when it was new. So it seems there has been no work on setting
up a new version of Fedora capable of working with Nvidia hardware. That
will be my bug.
Have you reported the bug? [2]
- Gilboa
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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