Fwd: Nouveau problem in F-16

[ergodic]

Wish you and yours a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving. Just finished updating F-16. The update rendered the system inoperable. Will re-install an test. Will keep you informed. I have been using Fedora since Version 3. I think that F-16 was rushed out without lacking sufficient testing. The QA standards should be raise. Cheers ----- Forwarded Message -----
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> I have not tried it. Anyway I will give it a try and let you know. (
> Work will keep me away until tomorrow).
> It is a shame that this type of issues are ignored. Many potential
> users are turned away when their first run after installation locks up
> the box requiring a hard reboot
> Thanks again.
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > On 11/23/2011 10:54 AM, ergodic wrote:
> > > Nouveau problem. Multi-booting F-15 and F-16. Nouveau works
> > > perfectly
> > > in in F15, but it does not wok in F-16. I have filed a bug against
> > > it
> > > ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755336 ).
> > > Excerpts from bug report:
> > > -Four clean install attempts
> > > -The first boot crashes the system after the request to send
> > > hardware
> > > information. A hardware reset is needed to recover. Restarts in
> > > VESA
> > > mode only.
> > > -Installing nVidia proprietary drivers in F-16 allows Gnome3
> > > operation.
> > > Have anyone had a similar experience? Any suggestions?
> > > Thanks.
> > > Box:
> > > MoBo: ASUS P5K DELUXE
> > > CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
> > > Mem: 6.0GB Corsair C13-2020
> > > HD: Maxtor 320GB and Seagate 1TB.
> > > Video: XFX PVT84GUDF3 GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
> > > Express
> > > x16 HDCP
> > > !
> > Did you try setting nouveau.noaccel=1 on the kernel line? I had
> > problems with the nouveau drivers, posted repeatedly to bugzilla,
> > but
> > no luck. Only turning off acceleration for nouveau seemed to let me
> > run at all, but even then I would experience the occasional crash.
> > Kevin
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