Re: StockBugzillaResponses updated, nVidia question

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On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 23:43 +0530, Gireesh wrote:
> > To be precise, if you have no xorg.conf, F11 will use nouveau
> > automatically, assuming it's installed, which I think it should be
> > (Matej, it was installed by default on previous releases, right - just
> > not *used* by default?) If you have an xorg.conf remaining from a
> > previous release which specifies a particular driver (nvidia or nv),
> > that driver will continue to be used, F11 won't magically override your
> > xorg.conf.
> 
> Atleast that's not what happened for me on a fresh F11 install with a
> Nvidia GeForce 6150.
> I got a 1024x768 stretched display with vesa. I had to manually create
> a new xorg.conf from
> the nouveau test day [1] and restart X. After that it worked fine.
> 
> This was a lxde only install that skipped firstboot if that is
> significant. Manually running
> system-config-display still came up with vesa at 1024x768 though.

We do specifically blacklist a few adapters to vesa instead of nouveau,
ones which have been reported to fail completely with nouveau. What's
the PCI ID of your graphics card, please? lspci -nn will tell you.
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