nvidia/nouveau problem

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 17:54 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 01:58 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > I have been following this thread about the nvidia and nouveau problem.
> > I had the problem in my installation too until I installed using the
> > "install with basic video drive" the second choice down on the
> > installation choices page and I am having good success with my
> > installation. I installed the Beta release on a Dell 9400 Inspirion,
> > FX2500 video card, 4g Hyperx memory, T7700 processor.
> 
> This may the same effect as specifying nomodeset on the grub kernel line.
> That seems to work - it boots fairly cleanly, with no long pause.
> 
> However, the downside is pretty bad: Maximum resolution of 1280x014,
> and it doesn't detect an external display.

Both of these result in use of the generic VESA driver.
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