On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:39:12AM +0000, Mark Eggers wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:25:51 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who (maybe) have the > > same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in a Dell Dimension E520 and have > > also experienced (and maybe solved) this problem. > > Suggestions on how to solve the problem (if possible) are also welcome. > This is long (as usual). > My current environment: > Platform: Upgraded Dell 8200 > CPU: 2.6 GHz P4 > Memory: 1.5 GB > Video: 7600 GS (overclocked) > Driver: 275.09.07 (from NVidia) > Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 23" DVI at 1680x1050x24 > OS: Fedora 15 > It's not quite the same card as yours, but close. Unfortunately this is > an AGP system, so there may be some differences. I've not included my > driver options to enable AGP side band addressing, since that would be > pointless for a PCI-e card. > This works reasonably well for WindowMaker, KDE, and Gnome 3. Thanks for the long reply. So evidently you are running Gnome 3 using an AGP 7600 GS with the Nvidia driver. 7600 GS should not be too different from the 7300 LE unless the AGP vs PCIe makes a (big) difference. But I have already wasted more than a few days exploring the problem so I am not going to use the Nvidia installer to set up the Nvidia driver to see if that makes a difference (which I doubt). I installed Fed15/Gnome3 and encountered the irritatingly slow performance of the nouveau driver and the occasional freezes. I then used the Rpmfusion kmod and akmod rpms to install the Nvidia driver. That resulted in the desktop freeze problem. I googled myself blue in the face to see if anybody had suggested anything to solve the problem. When that didn't work I installed Fed15/LXDE and used the Rpmfusion rpms to install the Nvidia driver. Everything worked perfectly! To my mind this suggests that Selinux is definitely not involved (unless there is some Gnome 3 Selinux peculiarity). To be even more sure I now installed Fed15/KDE and used the Rpmfusion drivers to install the Nvidia drivers. Again everything worked perfectly! So I suspect there is some Gnome3/Nvidia conflict. When the new Nvidia drivers were issued a few days ago I again installed Fed15/Gnome3 (I don't like KDE very much anyway) to try the new drivers. No luck again. The same desktop freeze! I then group installed LXDE from a console screen and shall continue using LXDE until either a new nouveau driver is available or I hear of some trick to get Nvidia working with Gnome 3 or Nvidia issues a new driver that does work with Gnome 3. Luckily I can taste the forbidden Gnome 3 fruit on my laptop with Intel graphics. I am a little bit ambiguous about the taste :-) Alexander -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
