Re: Can't start X on F12

[Sam Sharpe]

On 4 July 2010 15:44, Steve <zephod(a)cfl.rr.com&gt; wrote:
>  ---- Doron Bar Zeev <doronbr770(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > > I'm running kernel 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686 and I have an nVidia 8800GT
> > > graphics card. The xorg.conf shows me using a vesa driver.
> > >
> > >
> > try use nouveau instead of vesa
>
>  Thanks for the suggestion but I have already tried that. When I replace vesa with nv in
> xorg.conf an error message appears in Xorg.0.log saying
>
>  The PCI device has a kernel module claiming it.
>
>  and X can't find a screen and stops.
>  A strange thing that I noticed is that when I use the vesa driver, even when I boot into
> single user mode I get nouveau messages in /var/log/messages such as this:
>
>  [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0 Detected an NV50 generation card (0x092888a2).
>
>  What is an NV50 generation card? Could its driver be blocking the video driver? 
Errr... nv != nouveau

Try replacing the word "vesa" with "nouveau" in your Xorg.conf, then
see what happens.

-- 
Sam