On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM, ka1ifq<ka1ifq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> "On 08:30:12 pm Marcel Rieux<m.z.rieux@xxxxxxxxx> said" >> >>> Maybe I should add that, if I were you, I'd forget about Nvidia >>> drivers altogether. Nvidia offers no support for Linux and, since it's >>> not open source, you don't get much from the community either. Even if >>> the community wanted, without the source code, it would be minimal. >>> >>> My advice: stay with Nouveau. >>> >> I use an Nvidia GeForce 6150 on another flavor of Linux and it works great, >> even with effects turned on. >> ymmv. >> > I was undoubtedly impatient when I wrote this: 3D works perfectly here > too. The problem is getting 2 screens to play well together and > getting sound to the TV through the HDMI cable, even with the S/PDIF > wire installed. > > As for hardware accelerated 3D, as I wrote to Fred Williams, it seems > in the works, though it might take some time before it's stable. So, > one has to estimate if he's interested in wobbly windows and The Cube > to the point of making updates uncertain. > > While researching for my answer here, I also found this at rpmfusion: > > To use the default initrd, but disable the nouveau driver, edit > /etc/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the line(s) > starting with 'kernel': > > rdblacklist=uveau > > ================ > Though I updated to Fedora 12, I don't have this line in grub.conf, > but I'm far from sure this is causing the problem. > > What are the advantages of using the defautl initrd and disabling the > nouveau driver, I have no idea, No doubt a few hours of search at > Google's would provide the answer, but I'm getting fed up. > > I could add the line but, just in case adding this would get me to a > blank screen -- who knows? -- I want to make sure I can mount the > /boot partition with the Fedora LiveCD. I'm used to doing this with > Knoppix, which mounts partitions with just a few check marks. But, on > my system, Knoppix 6.2.1 boots to a blank screen on my system, just as > Ubuntu does. > > So much fun, just to find out what is the purpose of this incomplete > documentation! Fun that I would most probably would not have with > Windows :) > > ( I put a smiley. I hope Ed Gresko will be satisfied :)<=ther smiley. ) > > And no cuda without the drivers -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
