On 03/16/2012 02:48 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 14:31 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > >> On 03/15/2012 10:46 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> >>> On 03/15/2012 10:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 22:22 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Yeah, installed the beta and I'm still having the exact same problem. >>>>> >>>>> Graphics is Geforce FX 5600 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Ah. Then that'll be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745202 . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Looks like it. >>> >>> My screen issues are a little bit different but I think it's the same >>> underlying problem: driver issues. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I just saw comment 47 in the bug. >> >> I'm not sure I understand the part about workaround with blacklisting. >> >> At no time do I have a working Terminal after reboot. And what exactly >> ends up being blacklisted? I thought only drivers got blacklisted. How >> do you blacklist a card? Does someone have an example? >> > That's more a discussion for how we as the Fedora (and upstream GNOME) > devs can fix the problem than how you as a user can fix it. > > The 'blacklist' we're talking about is GNOME's blacklist of cards that > have 3D-accelerated drivers that seem to satisfy all the Shell > requirements, but are in fact known to be incapable of satisfactorily > rendering Shell. It's located > at /usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility (in F17, anyway, I > think it may have been different in F16). It blacklists based on the > Mesa renderer string; the level of granularity it's capable of depends > on how each Mesa driver decides to write its renderer string. For the > main drivers (Intel, Radeon, Nouveau) it's possible to achieve pretty > much GPU-level granularity. > Adam, thanks for that clarification. Also, can you boil this down a little for those of us with nVidia FX NV3/NV4 graphics? What can we expect for F17 in the way of supporting our nvidia graphics cards? Just some type of non-accelerated solution? Or will there be a driver written that will properly support these nVidia cards? And I went looking into nVidia non-free driver but it appears there is a problem with glibc conflict that prevents use of these drivers. Any comment on that situation? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
