On 08/04/2011 10:07 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote: >>> Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working >>> with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse >>> clicks don't work (but ctrl-alt-backspace does). >>> It's been a while, I thought this would surely get fixed. I'm running >>> F15 with the latest updates and the latest Nvidia driver. > >> I too am interested in this. I have a Dell Dimension E520 with Nvidia >> GeForce 7300 LE. I have put off upgrading to F15 on this machine (I have >> F15 running on a headless server which has no need of Gnomery) because I >> read these threads: >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/400091.html >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/398532.html >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-July/401484.html > I have not tried installing the (latest) Nvidia driver again. > I suspect it will still give problems with at least the NV46 family > of Nvidia chips (including the GeForce 7300 (LE)) as Nvidia has > as far as I know not adressed this problem. > > However I can confirm that the Nouveau driver is now functioning > adequately with the Geforce 7300 LE. I have been using it for the > past 2 weeks: > (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.x86_64 > mesa-xxx-7.11-0.16.20110709.0.fc15.x86_64 and > kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64) > > So if are willing to give up the Nvidia drivers you can comfortably > run F15+Gnome3 with Nouveau. > > Alexander > > Thanks for the reply. When I run the Nouveau driver, I get the Gnome "fallback" version. And I see a console message that says that there is no 3D hardware acceleration. I've got the same software versions. Regards, John -- 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
