On 06/15/2012 10:50 AM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have an ancient D800 with a mobililty geared Geforce 4 video card. > > The laptop is mostly useless, but since it's still working and browsing > the net on it is OK, I wanted to install F17 on it. > > In went F17, out went the video. :( The nouveau driver gave me a screen > full of artifacts and a block for a cursor. Large sections of the > screen were unreadable. > > I tried to use the proprietary legacy drivers from Nvidia, but the > installer bombs out. It used to work on F15 until a kernel update broke > it. Something changed and that change made it all the way to F17's > kernels. > > Does anyone know why the nouveau driver isn't working for me? Are there > any workarounds? > > I'd also appreciate hearing about any workaround's for the proprietary > installer error, if any. > > Regards, > > Ranbir > try setting nouveau.noaccel=1 on your linux line in your grub/grub2 config. That's the only way it will work for me. -- Regards, ------------------------ Kevin Martin NetFuel, Inc. mailto: kevinm@xxxxxxxxxxx mailto: tech-support@xxxxxxxxxxx U.S.). 312.698.9879 U.K.) 208.150.3609 U.S. Alternate). 847.231.3589 FAX) 866.654.3341 For access to our Software and Documentation please login or register for access at: http://www.netfuel.com ------------------------ -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
