FC7 Getting there...

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Wed Apr 25 15:51:23 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 02:33 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I rsync'd the x86_64 development tree and then did an NFS
> install using the rescue-cd in a Core Duo Aus p5b-e
> motherboard.  The Atansic ethernet works, yielding
> 750 Mb/s with ttcp.
> 
> The April Nvidia beta driver actually works with FC7.
> 
> I tried compiz.  Complained about no sync extension.
> Google sez "omit xfree86-dga" to get rid of that
> complaint.  Still couldn't get compiz to do anything
> interesting but the is the first time I've tried compiz.

The nvidia installer is broken.  It adds a Modules section containing
just Load "glx" even though that module is already in the default module
set.  This forces extmod to not get loaded, hence no dga, no sync, no
shape, no lots of things.

- ajax




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