no hardware acceleration?

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Jul 30 19:15:21 UTC 2009


On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, john wendel wrote:

>> I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I 
>> use the "evil" Nvidia driver. The "nouveau" driver (which you probably 
>> have) isn't quite ready for prime time.
>> 
>> I get the driver from the Nvidia website, but it can also be yummed from 
>> the rpmfusion-nonfree repo.
>
> I used yum.
> Thanks.
> Life is better now.

I wrote a bit soon.
Since getting the nvidia driver, suspend to disk no longer works.
When I try to unsuspend, the machine goes through part of
the startup sequence, but eventually the screen goes dark.

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