Noveau?

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Adam,

>> > If you're using the live CD from the Test Day page, F11 beta, or
>> > Rawhide, and you don't have an xorg.conf that explictly loads nv, then
>> > you're almost certainly using nouveau.
>>
>> Is it possible to enable it with the F-10 Noveau for those of us only
>> have a nv chip on our work laptops and aren't quite reaady to push
>> F11beta to them?
>
> Yes, but the nouveau in F10 is rather a long way behind what's in F11.
> However, if you want to try it in F10, install the relevant package
> (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau), create an xorg.conf, and change Driver "nv" to
> Driver "nouveau".
>
> You may also need to stick a line:
>
> modprobe nouveau
>
> in /etc/rc.local, I'm not 100% sure about that.
>
> If your work laptop can boot from a live CD, just grab the test day live
> CD (linked from the Wiki page) and give it a try with that.

Thanks for that. I'll try the F-11 beta live cd shortly. Just tried it
on a usb stick on my eeePC without much luck as it didn't get past the
syslinux prompt (the syslinux prompt was a grey shadow of what you
usually see) but then I've not tried recreating the stick using livecd
tools again. The livecd does boot fine in a KVM instance though....
:-)

Peter