--- On Thu, 4/30/09, john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Nouveau driver on F10
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 8:52 PM
Since the "nv" driver seems to have lots of
problems, I thought I'd try the nouveau driver. The
result was a black screen and a locked up box. No Xorg.0.log
file created, so no errors to report.
Does this actually work with F10? Anybody got it running?
Tips?
Thanks,
John
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I was using it on Fedora 10 with nvidia card:
[olivares@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep 'VGA'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)
[olivares@localhost ~]$
However, I wanted to watch movies and get the best out of my experience. While the
nvoueau worked, it was not to my liking. I enabled rpm fusion and installed nvidia
drivers and now can play movies and have no troubles like I did with nvoueau. If you want
to get the best out of your card, go ahead and enable rpm fusion and install the nvidia
driver. Check out the following page(s) if you will follow this route:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html
and/or
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
and you should be set provided your card is supported in some way. Also you are
encouraged to install akmod package, this way when and if you install a new kernel, the
akmod package takes care of building the nvidia driver against your new kernel and all
should just work.
If you do not need multimedia capabilities the noveaux driver should work, and if it does
not, many will encourage you to file bug reports.
Regards,
Antonio