Nvidia driver in F18?

Andreas Tunek andreas.tunek at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 11:34:58 UTC 2012


Have you reported any bugs? Otherwise, how do you expect problems to be
fixed?
On Nov 30, 2012 12:10 PM, "Ian Malone" <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 November 2012 10:58, Erwin Waterlander <waterlan at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has the Nvidia driver been improved in f18?
> >
> > I have an Nvidia GeForce GT220. When I upgraded from f14 to f16 and then
> to
> > f17 I had to go through a lot of trouble, because Anaconda gave me a
> black
> > screen every time between 1 and 5 minutes. I had to do many reboots to
> > continue the installation. I lost my data because of this, a few evenings
> > and got a lot of frustration.
> >
> > Finally I managed to get a stable f17 by installing the driver from
> > nvidia.com, but I'm afraid that Anaconda will use its own nvidia driver
> and
> > I have to go through the trouble again when I upgrade to f18. If that is
> the
> > case I will stick to f17.
> >
> > A bit of googling on the words 'fedora black screen' shows this is a
> known
> > issue since f15.
> >
>
> Afraid I can't offer any feedback on fedup or the new installer. I do
> know the F18 live cd builds I've been trying work okay with nouveau on
> a Geforce 9400, have a GT 640 too, but haven't done much testing with
> it yet.
>
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