NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Oct 31 10:36:59 UTC 2006



Roo schrieb:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:23:28 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> 
>> I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it I installed
>> NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6 On reboot, it gets all the
>> way to the second X start and the screen then just goes black and
>> nothing happens I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing
>> "a" when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt - that
>> didn't work Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
>> same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just a black
>> screen Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result Anyone else
>> encountered this?
> 
> It's a known problem with the beta drivers. You need this:
> 
> modprobe -r eeprom
> 
> as root, before X starts.

Is it that bad that we (livna developers) should integrate that into the
package? Anyone interested in doing that?

CU
thl




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