I agree with Adam. My NVidia card uses the nouveau driver, and Fedora 12 Alpha detected the card and implemented nouveau just fine. I didn't have to do anything special beyond twiddling my thumbs briefly during the installation and Firstboot process. I like the way Xorg now notices my second monitor and extends the desktop onto it.
I did have to retry the installation about 3 times before I got it done right, because my machine is a laptop that is normally on a docking station. I am only just learning how to be laptoppish.
Bob
On 09/10/2009 10:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:08 -0400, Jim wrote:
FC12-Alpha
I have A Geforce FX Go5200 that uses the "nv" driver I had no problems with installing this card on a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop , but after I did update it won't go into X .
It should use nouveau, not nv. Remove the xorg.conf file that specifies nv, and try again. It should auto-detect all relevant settings and load with the nouveau driver.