On 30 November 2012 10:58, Erwin Waterlander <waterlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Has the Nvidia driver been improved in f18? > > I have an Nvidia GeForce GT220. When I upgraded from f14 to f16 and then to > f17 I had to go through a lot of trouble, because Anaconda gave me a black > screen every time between 1 and 5 minutes. I had to do many reboots to > continue the installation. I lost my data because of this, a few evenings > and got a lot of frustration. > > Finally I managed to get a stable f17 by installing the driver from > nvidia.com, but I'm afraid that Anaconda will use its own nvidia driver and > I have to go through the trouble again when I upgrade to f18. If that is the > case I will stick to f17. > > A bit of googling on the words 'fedora black screen' shows this is a known > issue since f15. > Afraid I can't offer any feedback on fedup or the new installer. I do know the F18 live cd builds I've been trying work okay with nouveau on a Geforce 9400, have a GT 640 too, but haven't done much testing with it yet. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
