On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:40 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 06/07/2009 07:22 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > > I had a functioning F10 and decided to pre-upgrade to Rawhide/F11. It > > worked somewhat, but I'm left with one major problem. I can't get x to start > > I had a similar problem with radeon hardware too. AFAIK, we don't have > a discreet database of hardware and driver support so we can't really > upgrade somebody without risk of breaking their hardware: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502276 > > and with the flux in drivers these days, it's not a small chance. > > I suspect that some future statistical analysis of smolt reports could > create such a database. Fedora intentionally doesn't have one, as it duplicates work done by X.org (device / driver detection is done in the X server). We also try to avoid writing too much of a lengthy and complex driver blacklist in favour of just fixing the damn drivers, but I believe Claude may actually be using a card that's blacklisted already - there's a series of GeForce cards that we know don't work with nouveau which are blacklisted to use nv instead, I think he may have one of those. 'lspci -nn' would tell us for sure (as a general public announcement, please give the output of 'lspci -nn' rather than just 'lspci', because plain lspci doesn't give you the PCI IDs, which are what you really need to identify a card). Claude, can you confirm whether it's the 'nouveau' driver or 'nv' which is used if you start with no xorg.conf ? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
