On 4 July 2010 15:44, Steve <zephod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ---- Doron Bar Zeev <doronbr770@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm running kernel 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686 and I have an nVidia 8800GT >> > graphics card. The xorg.conf shows me using a vesa driver. >> > >> > >> try use nouveau instead of vesa > > Thanks for the suggestion but I have already tried that. When I replace vesa with nv in xorg.conf an error message appears in Xorg.0.log saying > > The PCI device has a kernel module claiming it. > > and X can't find a screen and stops. > A strange thing that I noticed is that when I use the vesa driver, even when I boot into single user mode I get nouveau messages in /var/log/messages such as this: > > [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0 Detected an NV50 generation card (0x092888a2). > > What is an NV50 generation card? Could its driver be blocking the video driver? Errr... nv != nouveau Try replacing the word "vesa" with "nouveau" in your Xorg.conf, then see what happens. -- Sam -- 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