On 15/02/12 20:21, Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le mardi 14 février 2012 à 15:45 -0500, Michael Hill a écrit :
My old-ish ThinkPad has an nVidia (173 series) GeForce FX Go5200 card
and never looked better than when I booted the Official GNOME 3 Live
DVD System (so good that I soon installed it). Since I use that
machine for testing, over the course of the past six months I've also
installed Debian's, Fedora's and Mageia's GNOME 3 desktops which all
run the nouveau driver, and all give me a multi-coloured, striped top
bar and messed-up desktop fonts. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining
the perfection of the original Live DVD, I re-installed it this week
(and I was right, it's perfect).
What did openSUSE get right ten months ago that still isn't right
elsewhere? Is it safe to upgrade from GNOME 3.0? (I have GNOME
Factory installed on my production laptop which has Radeon graphics,
and on my production desktop which has a much newer nVidia card -- btw
on the latter I don't get a GDM login screen on startup, just Console
1).
Well, I didn't do anything special in the GNOME 3 Live CD regarding
Nvidia, except shipping xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau and Mesa-nouveau
(it was a separate package in 11.3, it was merged into Mesa main
package).
I have no idea how what I am about to state may contribute to this
discussion but I also have an FX 5200 video card and I recall having - I
think that it was Felix Miata or was it Rajko? cannot recall - stating
that he runs his monitor using this video card in digital mode (ie,
using a DVI cable). While my card also has a DVI outlet I just cannot
use digital on it but it will only work in analogue mode.
The reason for this it would appear is that there are a number of
variations of this FX 5200 card, all called FX 5200 but they are not all
the same.
BC
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