On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:05:49AM -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce > 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100. > > A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back > then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and > basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but > would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to > make that happen. We did get a fix into F10. > > Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. > I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that > it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the > OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly > with it. > > Any chance we can at least get a fix in F11B so we fall back to VESA for > now? Any chance we could actually see this card supported by the > OpenSource drivers? > > This problem makes installing Fedora a REAL HASSLE! If you filed a bug against F10 and the details are still applicable, you could reopen it against Rawhide. If not, I urge you to file one now so we can try to get this fixed, thanks! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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