On 30 November 2012 11:34, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Have you reported any bugs? Otherwise, how do you expect problems to
be
fixed?
On Nov 30, 2012 12:10 PM, "Ian Malone" <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 30 November 2012 10:58, Erwin Waterlander <waterlan(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has the Nvidia driver been improved in f18?
> >
> > I have an Nvidia GeForce GT220. When I upgraded from f14 to f16 and then
> > to
> > f17 I had to go through a lot of trouble, because Anaconda gave me a
> > black
> > screen every time between 1 and 5 minutes. I had to do many reboots to
> > continue the installation. I lost my data because of this, a few
> > evenings
> > and got a lot of frustration.
> >
> > Finally I managed to get a stable f17 by installing the driver from
> >
nvidia.com, but I'm afraid that Anaconda will use its own nvidia driver
> > and
> > I have to go through the trouble again when I upgrade to f18. If that is
> > the
> > case I will stick to f17.
> >
> > A bit of googling on the words 'fedora black screen' shows this is a
> > known
> > issue since f15.
> >
>
> Afraid I can't offer any feedback on fedup or the new installer. I do
> know the F18 live cd builds I've been trying work okay with nouveau on
> a Geforce 9400, have a GT 640 too, but haven't done much testing with
> it yet.
>
I usually create my own ISOs or install from a kickstart, using custom
home-brewed RPMs so that all the drivers are available and a kernel
update doesn't mean having to go through running the NVidia installer
again.
Unfortunately due to a bug in mock it is proving difficult to make
nosrc SRPMs so I can't share them with anyone, otherwise I would put
them somewhere public. It looks like this bug has been around for a
long time, but I guess no one gives it a high priority since it is
mostly those of us having to distribute commercial packages (eg
universities) who are interested in making nosrc packages.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483486