Re: Nvidia driver in F18?

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Have you reported any bugs? Otherwise, how do you expect problems to be fixed?

On Nov 30, 2012 12:10 PM, "Ian Malone" <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

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