nouveau drv?

[Greg]

On 10/08/2009 10:55 AM, Rob Healey wrote:
> Greeting All:
>
> I understand that you are working on a new version of Xorg, but my 
> question is?  If this is so problematic and will not use the nVidia 
> graphics cards, then why not roll it back until it will work?  There 
> seems to be a lot of nVidia cards and computers using them...
>
> I have an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] with a 
> nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 GS PCI-e graphics card, and you are 
> blocking me from being able to use FC12-Pre-Alpha!  Are you going to 
> get this resolved soon???
>
> I have tried several times to get a running system going using FC12, 
> and the nouveau driver stops me!  I can't even get the livecd testday 
> to boot into X...
>
> I know that I could get the testday disk that I made prior to 
> 20090730, would at least get me into the livecd with X amd sound!  
> FC11 x86_64 has a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau that rawhide and it works 
> for me!!!
>
> I believe that you are trying to push too hard and too fast without 
> caring about the users lately!  I got started using Redhat/ Fedora 
> back at Redhat 6!  I have used all bleeding edge releases from then on 
> up to Fedora 11 now.  I have never had this much problem with 
> installing and using now -- FC12!
>
> Can you all help me???
>
> Sincerely yours,
> a very disappointed bleeding-edge user,
> Rob G. Healey
have you tried blacklisting that driver an installing the actual Nvidia 
driver? http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 . i dunno 
how up to date that thread is but blacklisting that driver should help

-- 
*Greg*
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