On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:47 +0000, N James Bridge wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 07:27 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +0000, N James Bridge wrote: > > > I am hoping someone may be able to throw some light on this. > > > > > > 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 rebooted into level 3 and > > > uninstalled the nvidia drivers and tried again - same result. Following > > > advice I got here previously, I rebooted to level 3, deleted xorg.conf > > > and then ran startx, which worked. However, on closing, I got a string > > > of error messages and then on booting up, the black screen again. > > > > > > Finally, I repeated the above and from the gui (GNOME) made a new user. > > > Since then things have worked normally. Why? It seems more like black > > > magic than IT. > > > > > > I have attached the error log and the default xorg.conf file, for expert > > > perusal. It doesn't mean a whole lot to me. > > > > > > thanks in advance for any comments > > ---- > > the error log doesn't seem to track with the xorg.conf file you > > enclosed. > > > > the xorg.conf called for 'nv' but the error log tried to use the > > proprietary nvidia driver. > > > > What is it that you want to do and perhaps we can figure out the best > > course of action > > > > Craig > Ultimately, I want to get the nvidia driver installed, rather than > nouveau. (I have a weakness for desktop effects!) I have had nvidia > drivers working consistently up to F12, without fuss. Previously I > installed fedora N (N=6-11) and then set up the repos, downloaded the > nvidia drivers from RPMfusion or its predecessor and just installed > them. No problems. Now it doesn't work. > > The xorg.conf file is what was generated automatically after I deleted > the existing one and after uninstalling the nvidia driver (and its > metapackage, so it is not being pulled back in). The error log generated > was the same for 4 tries - I used diff to check them and they only > differed in the times at which they were written. The first one was > different; then I had the nvidia drivers installed, but the end result > was the same. > > There have now been a couple of replies about nouveau grabbing the > graphics card and ways of stopping this. Another method is described on > this page: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html. I > had expected that installation from the rpm package would take care of > the problem. It is a considerable hurdle for an average user. ---- I'm going to stay out of the political discussion and suggest that you do the following... - append 'nomodesetting' to your kernel boot... ie, the lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf that go... title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 ro root=UUID=7734afd9-2d2e-43fc-baa2-b8ea07cc98f7 rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us nomodesetting initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.img savedefault boot (watch the line wraps...) move your xorg.conf out of the way... mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-disabled install the nvidia packages per the instructions you were following and then reboot I would expect it to work Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
