F7T4 -- I tried the Nouveau driver from the LiveCD and hit major problems

[dragoran dragoran]

On 5/2/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:32:38 Miles Lane wrote:
> > Well, whatever got included in the F7T4 x86 LiveCD was busted.
> > Maybe whatever it is that you are running should get included in the
> > release, but it doesn't seem to be there now. Unfortunately, this is
> > the last test before the release. Kinda late to get this right.
>
> Which is why the driver isn't used by default for anything.  You have to
> _know_ about it and _knowningly_ enable it in your config.


maybe adding a warning when turning it on in system-config-display might
help?
a popup like "if you are using this driver your computer might explode; you
have been warned!"
well not this but something similar (someone who doesn't know what he is
doing wouldn't enable it in xorg.conf)

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