On 8 Oct 2013 at 10:25, Reindl Harald wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:25:39 +0200
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net>
Organization: the lounge interactive design
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes(a)kuentos.guam.net>,
Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200
Am 08.10.2013 10:19, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
>> Am 08.10.2013 09:37, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
>>> I have a classroom that currently has Fedora 17, and tested a
>>> machine booting from the livecd via flash and the gnome3 worked? I
>>> then upgraded a machine to fedora 19, and gnome classic, KDE, and
>>> xfce work, but the gnome comes back with an error. The is also
>>> openbox, but it comes up with a blank screen, but clicking will
>>> bring up a menu and then seems to work?
>>>
>>> Gnome come up with this error, and goes back to the login
>>> screen.
>>>
>>> Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
>>>
>>> With a notebook had an issue, but setting up dmlight fixed that
>>> problem, but did the same here, and still same results.
>>>
>>> Note clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the
>>> fedup upgrade to 19 it doesn't?
>>
>> because the live image does not use the nvidia BLOB driver?
>>
> How would one get the fedup upgrade to not use the nvidia BLOB
> driver? What is the nvidia BLOB?
the nvidia binary drivers - BLOB = binary large object
> Long ago, I had actually used the nvidia drivers, but they stopped
> supporting the cards many versions ago
which you did not mention in your initial post
do you have a xorg.conf?
if yes try to delete it, recent linux setups do not need them
no xorg.conf, many versions ago it was removed.
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