No Gnome 3 for me

[Alexander Volovics]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote:
> > Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working 
> > with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse 
> > clicks don't work (but ctrl-alt-backspace does).
> > It's been a while, I thought this would surely get fixed. I'm running 
> > F15 with the latest updates and the latest Nvidia driver.
 
> I too am interested in this. I have a Dell Dimension E520 with Nvidia
> GeForce 7300 LE. I have put off upgrading to F15 on this machine (I have
> F15 running on a headless server which has no need of Gnomery) because I
> read these threads: 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/400091.html
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/398532.html
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-July/401484.html

I have not tried installing the (latest) Nvidia driver again.
I suspect it will still give problems with at least the NV46 family
of Nvidia chips (including the GeForce 7300 (LE)) as Nvidia has
as far as I know not adressed this problem.

However I can confirm that the Nouveau driver is now functioning
adequately with the Geforce 7300 LE. I have been using it for the
past 2 weeks:
(xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.x86_64
 mesa-xxx-7.11-0.16.20110709.0.fc15.x86_64 and
 kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64)

So if are willing to give up the Nvidia drivers you can comfortably
run F15+Gnome3 with Nouveau.

Alexander