F7T4 -- I tried the Nouveau driver from the LiveCD and hit major
problems
[Posted May 7, 2007 by corbet]
| From: |
| "Miles Lane" <miles.lane-AT-gmail.com> |
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| F7T4 -- I tried the Nouveau driver from the LiveCD and hit major
problems |
| Date: |
| Wed, 2 May 2007 02:53:46 -0400 |
Hi,
I have a NVidia NV31 (GeForce FX 5600).
I booted the LiveCD, and it correctly configured the nv driver
and set the monitor resolution to 1600x1200.
Wanting to test Compiz, I opened System->Administration->Display.
>From there, I selected Hardware->Configure and selected nouveau from the list.
I was told I needed to log out to get the new driver running X.
I logged out and then back in.
The result was that the Gnome desktop never got displayed.
Rather, I got reoccurring errors stating that something was
wrong with the "greeter." I'll reproduce and file a bug with the
exact wording.
Then, when I tried to switch to a VT, I found it was busted.
As far as I can tell, nothing was being rendered on the VT.
Rather, the video image from GDM kept getting displayed.
Each time I hit Enter, the whole image of GDM would rotate to the
right and wrap around onto the left side of the screen.
Miles
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