On 4 July 2010 15:44, Steve <zephod(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
---- Doron Bar Zeev <doronbr770(a)gmail.com> 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