On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:38 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > My T61 has the Nvidia Quadro NV140M video card. I tested the x86_64 > live dvd and installed the x86_64 DVD. This message covers > platform-specific issues that I encountered. > > Live DVD: > > - The DVD won't boot into X. If I boot to runlevel 3 and attempt to > system-config-display, there are two problems. > > (1) The Monitor section of xorg.conf is missing. > (2) The nv driver hangs with a black screen. The keyboard is still > functional and I can reboot with <CTRL>-<ALT>-<F1> <CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL>. > > Hand-editing xorg.conf to create a Monitor section and using the vesa > driver restores X functionality. An X log from the failed nv startup would be helpful here. > - X server doesn't terminate on logout--I have to <CTRL>-<ALT>-<BKSP> to > kill it. This was a bug I inflicted with a particular libICE/libSM combination. It should be fixed now, I hope. > - Suspend doesn't work at all. Select Suspend from the power applet and > the machine starts to suspend, the light comes on, then the light goes > off and the machine is live, except that the display is black. I can > reboot as above. As always, suspend on nv graphics chips is a disaster. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
