Robin Laing wrote:
I would really appreciate it if nVidia, ATI or Intel would create RPM's
for their own cards so we could deal with them directly. Of course if
you have a bug, then you have to remove the driver to get any support.
That's not how driver distribution works in the GNU/Linux
On 02/01/2010 04:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:55:32 +1100,
Rogerare...@bigpond.com wrote:
snip
Then maybe there should be a blacklist all 3d applications until you
install 3d.
and:
Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 14:14:29 -0700,
Robin Laing robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote:
No 3D hardware support, your software won't work. It doesn't matter
what you do or how often you install the software or attempt to edit
config files, will it work. It requires 3D support. It should
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:21:49 +1100,
Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote:
What stops Nouveau from being tested against Blender, various rendering
engines and Varicad, bog standard widely accepted 3D apps, then
released as fully functional before this discussion eventuated.
This was
Fusion's nvidia driver works. There've been a few problems I've had,
but none to speak of since switching to akmod-nvidia.
Blacklisting nouveau is relatively easy to do wrt adding a line to
grub. In our environment, I have a script that puppet uses to take
care of this (see below). It would
snip
Because the only other free driver is nv. And the consensus (at least
for Fedora) is that Nouveau has passed up nv and should be the default
driver.
/snip
Ahem! Fedora is the creator of superb cutting edge software and I am a
zealot.
The Fedora user base has the problems, quite a
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:58:53 +1100,
Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote:
The original topic was to move nouveau out of the way so users can do
what they need to do without jumping through hoops as I and many others
had to do.
That's not going to happen. The people that want to make
Personally, I consider ATI to be nothing more than scrap metal waiting
for a rubbish bin, and you couldn't pay me enough money to ditch nVidia
for ATI.
Agreed
For my needs Nvidia works fairly well, the others do not.
Roger
PS
Usability of 3D drivers is what we need and when Nouveau fills
snip
Then maybe there should be a blacklist all 3d applications until you
install 3d.
and:
Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver
available for that hardware.
/snip
Woh! The above comments puzzle me.
Please explain how Nouveau is the best. Read my comments
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:55:32 +1100,
Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote:
snip
Then maybe there should be a blacklist all 3d applications until you
install 3d.
and:
Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver
available for that hardware.
/snip
Woh! The
Roger wrote:
Please explain how Nouveau is the best. Read my comments below before
responding!
It's the best available in Free Software. The nvidia driver is NOT Free
Software. Fedora supports Free Software and ONLY Free Software. So we ship
Nouveau.
May I suggest you visit the Blender.org
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Roger wrote:
Please explain how Nouveau is the best. Read my comments below before
responding!
It's the best available in Free Software. The nvidia driver is NOT Free
Software. Fedora supports Free Software and ONLY Free Software. So we ship
Nouveau.
Roger wrote:
Please Fedora get rid of nouveau until it's the same quality as Fedora.
Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver
available for that hardware. We do not support proprietary drivers, or any
other proprietary software really, if you want to install that
2010/1/28 Roger are...@bigpond.com:
So many people having trouble
With respect, it's sheer stupidity that this issue remains unresolved
some 12 months later.
Rubbish. What issue remains unresolved? He's replacing Nouveau with
the proprietary NVIDIA driver, what should Fedora do? It is great
Chris Smart wrote:
2010/1/28 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
You don't need to re-run dracut. All you need to do is add this the the
kernel command line:
rdblacklist=nouveau
This is completely unnecessary. The module has been black listed and
all future kernel updates will exclude
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
2010/1/28 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
You don't need to re-run dracut. All you need to do is add this the the
kernel command line:
rdblacklist=nouveau
This is completely unnecessary. The module has been black listed and
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:08:29AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
2010/1/28 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
You don't need to re-run dracut. All you need to do is add this the the
kernel command line:
rdblacklist=nouveau
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:00 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:08:29AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
2010/1/28 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
You don't need to re-run dracut. All you need to do is
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:09:21PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
So why was kernel mode setting such a huge improvement? :-).
Well, speaking only for two different pieces of NVidia and two ATI
cards in my household, it makes for a beautiful graphical boot
process. YMMV, but all my machines start up
On Friday 29 January 2010 01:57:01 Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:09:21PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
So why was kernel mode setting such a huge improvement? :-).
Well, speaking only for two different pieces of NVidia and two ATI
cards in my household, it makes for a
2010/1/28 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net:
FC12-x86_64/KDE
How do you Blacklist nouveau ?
Did you install the nvidia module from rpmfusion repositories? If so,
it automatically black lists nouveau for you. However, your initramfs
still has nouveau in it. You need to re-build it and reboot:
su -c
Jim wrote:
FC12-x86_64/KDE
How do you Blacklist nouveau ?
I have installed kmod-nvidia because nouveau is causing the mouse to
disappear
after bringing computer out of a power down after about a half an hour.
It is nouveau that is causing mouse to disappear, i have installed
nvidia
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