On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Greg Woods <woods@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +0000, N James Bridge wrote: > >> I had (and now have restored) F12 (x86_64) working with the nouveau >> driver. I have been watching for the nvidia drivers to make it into the >> RPMfusion repo and they have now done so and last night I installed the >> 173 legacy driver (as required for my ancient graphics card!) Result - >> plymouth intro followed by black screen. > > I had a similar problem when trying to install the Nvidia drivers > manually, downloaded from nvidia.com. It would always fail trying to > load the kernel module. This (I think) is because the nouveau module was > already loaded and had grabbed the video card. This, annoyingly, > happened even if I turned off "rhgb" and booted single user. I finally > had to boot with "nomodeset" and "3" to get it to boot without nouveau > loaded, after which I could finally get the Nvidia driver to install. > (The Nvidia driver will also not install if you are in single user mode, > hence the "3"). > > --Greg FYI, my solution to nouveau loading was to add rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel parameters. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines