Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 8 Oct 2013 at 9:58, Reindl Harald wrote:

Date sent:	Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:58:26 +0200
From:	Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
Organization:	the lounge interactive design
To:	Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>, 
	mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Subject:	Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

> 
> 
> Am 08.10.2013 09:37, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
> > I have a classroom that currently has Fedora 17, and tested a 
> > machine booting from the livecd via flash and the gnome3 
> > worked? I then upgraded a machine to fedora 19, and gnome 
> > classic, KDE, and xfce work, but the gnome comes back with an 
> > error. The is also openbox, but it comes up with a blank screen, but
> > clicking will bring up a menu and then seems to work?
> > 
> > Gnome come up with this error, and goes back to the login 
> > screen.
> > 
> > Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
> > 
> > With a notebook had an issue, but setting up dmlight fixed that
> > problem, but did the same here, and still same results.
> > 
> > Note clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the fedup
> > upgrade to 19 it doesn't?
> 
> because the live image does not use the nvidia BLOB driver?
> 
> 
How would one get the fedup upgrade to not use the nvidia BLOB 
driver? What is the nvidia BLOB?

Long ago, I had actually used the nvidia drivers, but they stopped 
supporting the cards many versions ago.


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