On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM, ka1ifq<ka1...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> "On 08:30:12 pm Marcel Rieux<m.z.ri...@gmail.com> said"
>>
>>> Maybe I should add that, if I were you, I'd forget about Nvidia
>>> drivers altogether. Nvidia offers no support for Linux and, since it's
>>> not open source, you don't get much from the community either. Even if
>>> the community wanted, without the source code, it would be minimal.
>>>
>>> My advice: stay with Nouveau.
>>>
>> I use an Nvidia GeForce 6150 on another flavor of Linux and it works great,
>> even with effects turned on.
>> ymmv.
>>
> I was undoubtedly impatient when I wrote this: 3D works perfectly here
> too. The problem is getting 2 screens to play well together and
> getting sound to the TV through the HDMI cable, even with the S/PDIF
> wire installed.
>
> As for hardware accelerated 3D, as I wrote to Fred Williams, it seems
> in the works, though it might take some time before it's stable. So,
> one has to estimate if he's interested in wobbly windows and The Cube
> to the point of making updates uncertain.
>
> While researching for my answer here, I also found this at rpmfusion:
>
> To use the default initrd, but disable the nouveau driver, edit
> /etc/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the line(s)
> starting with 'kernel':
>
> rdblacklist=uveau
>
> ================
> Though I updated to Fedora 12, I don't have this line in grub.conf,
> but I'm far from sure this is causing the problem.
>
> What are the advantages of using the defautl initrd and disabling the
> nouveau driver, I have no idea, No doubt a few hours of search at
> Google's would provide the answer, but I'm getting fed up.
>
> I could add the line but, just in case adding this would get me to a
> blank screen -- who knows? -- I want to make sure I can mount the
> /boot partition with the Fedora LiveCD. I'm used to doing this with
> Knoppix, which mounts partitions with just a few check marks. But, on
> my system, Knoppix 6.2.1 boots to a blank screen on my system, just as
> Ubuntu does.
>
> So much fun, just to find out what is the purpose of this incomplete
> documentation! Fun that I would most probably would not have with
> Windows :)
>
> ( I put a smiley. I hope Ed Gresko will be satisfied :)<=ther smiley. )
>
>
And no cuda without the drivers
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