On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 10:09 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > 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! Couldn't find the old BZ bug, and the xorg logs do show a different specific error this time, so I'm just going to open a new one. Will add BZ number to the reply in this thread from Adam... Cheers, Chris -- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
