On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:34 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram > <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:52 +0000, "Jóhann B. > Guðmundsson" wrote: > First of all > Nvidia does not work and so far and there is > nothing that indicates it will work in the > near future. > > Truly a bummer! Given the large number of nVidia card > users there are, I > would think this should be more of a priority. Please > don't let this > turn into a philosophical discussion (aka a flame > fest) on nVidia vs. > others. A lot of people use nVidia cards - we need to > deal with that and > respond to the end user population accordingly... > > > Not philosophical. Just a matter of not having the source code > to fix the proprietary drivers. However the reverse > engineering effort can yield some results albeit in a delayed > manner. Refer > > > http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/ <snip...> > > If I append "vga=0x318" to my kernel options in menu.lst for example, > i can see the nice plymouth effects (GeForce 8500 GTS) So would it > hurt if we would add this option as the default in grub as a > (temporary) workaround? Are there cards that don't scale well with > "vga=0x318" ? Interesting... I just tried appending "vga=0x318" to my kernel options. It didn't work outright, but... ...It DID error out and give me a list of scanned VGA options. I selected one of them at random (vga=0x323) and "Graphical Plymouth" came to life in all its glory. Given the other feedback, this seems to also work for nVidia cards. So, why COULDN't we have Plymouth (or a set of appropriate kernel options) do something like: 1) scan for an appropriate and usable VESA mode for these cards 2) Upon discovering there's a really nice one we can use, go with that one 3) Then fail back to text mode only after nothing available in a reasonable VESA mode works. Solves the problem from what I can tell... Cheers, Chris -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
