Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.10.2013 10:19, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
>> 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?

the nvidia binary drivers - BLOB = binary large object

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

which you did not mention in your initial post

do you have a xorg.conf?
if yes try to delete it, recent linux setups do not need them

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