Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100.
A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to make that happen. We did get a fix into F10.
Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly with it.
Any chance we can at least get a fix in F11B so we fall back to VESA for now? Any chance we could actually see this card supported by the OpenSource drivers?
This problem makes installing Fedora a REAL HASSLE!
Cheers,
Chris
-- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:05:49AM -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100.
A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to make that happen. We did get a fix into F10.
Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly with it.
Any chance we can at least get a fix in F11B so we fall back to VESA for now? Any chance we could actually see this card supported by the OpenSource drivers?
This problem makes installing Fedora a REAL HASSLE!
If you filed a bug against F10 and the details are still applicable, you could reopen it against Rawhide. If not, I urge you to file one now so we can try to get this fixed, thanks!
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 10:09 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:05:49AM -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100.
A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to make that happen. We did get a fix into F10.
Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly with it.
Any chance we can at least get a fix in F11B so we fall back to VESA for now? Any chance we could actually see this card supported by the OpenSource drivers?
This problem makes installing Fedora a REAL HASSLE!
If you filed a bug against F10 and the details are still applicable, you could reopen it against Rawhide. If not, I urge you to file one now so we can try to get this fixed, thanks!
Couldn't find the old BZ bug, and the xorg logs do show a different specific error this time, so I'm just going to open a new one. Will add BZ number to the reply in this thread from Adam...
Cheers,
Chris
-- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 07:05 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100.
A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to make that happen. We did get a fix into F10.
Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly with it.
This card ought to work with nouveau, by all accounts. Are you using nouveau and not nv? What's the failure look like in the X log?
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On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 10:26 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 07:05 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
Just tried F11 Beta on my home machine with an on-board NVidia GeForce 7100 chipset. The MB is the EVGA 7100.
A bug that was found in F10 with this combo has returned in F11B. Back then, F10 would not properly recognize my GeForce 7100 card and basically stop. I would fall back to VESA to get things to work, but would have to force a default xorg.conf file onto a USB drive Live CD to make that happen. We did get a fix into F10.
Well, the same thing is now back in F11B. It's exactly the same problem. I still don't understand why we can't recognize this card. It seems that it has been consistently left off of the compatibility list for the OpenSource NVidia drivers. Only the proprietary drivers work correctly with it.
This card ought to work with nouveau, by all accounts. Are you using nouveau and not nv? What's the failure look like in the X log?
It turns out looking at the logs that the nouveau driver attempts to load, but then fails. Unfortunately the failure is so late in the game that the VESA driver never loads.
Xorg logs and the default xorg.conf file which successfully loads the VESA driver included in new Bugzilla bug #493981 filed against Rawhide / nouveau for now...
Cheers,
Chris
-- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw
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