On 30 November 2012 11:34, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >> I usually create my own ISOs or install from a kickstart, using custom home-brewed RPMs so that all the drivers are available and a kernel update doesn't mean having to go through running the NVidia installer again. Unfortunately due to a bug in mock it is proving difficult to make nosrc SRPMs so I can't share them with anyone, otherwise I would put them somewhere public. It looks like this bug has been around for a long time, but I guess no one gives it a high priority since it is mostly those of us having to distribute commercial packages (eg universities) who are interested in making nosrc packages. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483486 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
