Adventures with F15 Alpha et al.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

Sorry I missed what is not working. The desktop is showing, but you
can't run certain commands or something. Does a shell work or change
to console show what might be running? Anything in the
.xsession-errors or other logs?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:11, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com> wrote:
> I replaced the Nvidia 9600gt with an Evga 1GB DDR5 GT 460 SE.
> The newer card works with Noveau and does not need the
> Nvidia driver to hush the fan.
>
> To the last hurrah Noveau just would not work with the 9600gt.
> Neither did the Noveau in the latest Scientific Linux.
>
> The 64 bit Gnome desktop tended to stop launching commands
> after a minute or two.  After yum updating nothing interesting
> worked.
>
> I tried the last two nightly builds, 9 and 10 March.  Both booted
> up and displayed the desktop unspoiled by command bars, etc..
>
> I5 with 8GB memory, Gigabyte ga-p55a-ud3, gt 460 SE.
>
> Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine, the new Alpha fails.
>
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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