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.
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imalone
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