--- On Thu, 4/30/09, john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote: I was using it on Fedora 10 with nvidia card: [olivares@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep 'VGA' 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1) [olivares@localhost ~]$ However, I wanted to watch movies and get the best out of my experience. While the nvoueau worked, it was not to my liking. I enabled rpm fusion and installed nvidia drivers and now can play movies and have no troubles like I did with nvoueau. If you want to get the best out of your card, go ahead and enable rpm fusion and install the nvidia driver. Check out the following page(s) if you will follow this route: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html and/or http://www.fedorafaq.org/ and you should be set provided your card is supported in some way. Also you are encouraged to install akmod package, this way when and if you install a new kernel, the akmod package takes care of building the nvidia driver against your new kernel and all should just work. If you do not need multimedia capabilities the noveaux driver should work, and if it does not, many will encourage you to file bug reports. Regards, Antonio

-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of john wendel Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 5:18 AM To: olivares14031(a)yahoo.com; Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Nouveau driver on F10 Antonio Olivares wrote: experience. While the nvoueau worked, it was not to my liking. I enabled rpm fusion and installed nvidia drivers and now can play movies and have no troubles like I did with nvoueau. If you want to get the best out of your card, go ahead and enable rpm fusion and install the nvidia driver. Check out the following page(s) if you will follow this route: Also you are encouraged to install akmod package, this way when and if you install a new kernel, the akmod package takes care of building the nvidia driver against your new kernel and all should just work. work, and if it does not, many will encourage you to file bug reports. Thanks for the reply. I'm using the nvidia driver for my new cards, but this card is a TNT2 (10 years old). The nvidia driver that supports it won't build with the current F10 kernel, the nv driver is a P.O.S, and it looks like nouveau doesn't like it either. Guess I'm out of luck. If F11 doesn't work, I'll file a bugzilla. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------ John, IIRC the nvoueau driver is reverse engineered from the proprietary nVidia driver. This doesn't support anything earlier than the GeForce 2 cards at least and I'm not too sure whether support for the entire GeForce range prior to GeForce 4 has been dropped. Check the nVidia website for info on this, but I suspect that the TNT2 card is just too old, sorry. Andrew -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- This email contains confidential information. The contents must not be disclosed to anyone else except with the authority of the sender. Unauthorised recipients are requested to maintain this confidentiality and immediately advise the sender of any error or misdirection in transmission. The following notice applies to emails originating in the UK. E-mails sent on behalf of AMEC are sent on behalf of the relevant AMEC company below. These are registered in England and Wales with registered office at Booths Park, Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8QZ and number as shown: AMEC plc 01675285, AMEC Group Limited 04612748, AMEC Capital Projects Limited 02804109, AMEC Earth and Environmental UK Limited 04987981, AMEC Nuclear Holdings Limited 03725076, AMEC Nuclear M & O Limited 05664844, AMEC Nuclear UK Limited 01120437, AMEC Nuclear International Limited 03260477, AMEC Nuclear Projects Limited 05664962 and National Nuclear Corporation Limited 02290928 --

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:52:46 -0700 john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote: On the Nvidia afflicted box I have I just enabled it as of FC10 and it worked out of the box. It very very rarely misdraws something small and spews a diagnostic to the log (maybe once every day or two). File a bug report for the Nouveau people - even knowing the card variant may be helpful as it will tell them which variant might be a problem still.