RC3 Install Report

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 20:03:23 -0700,
  Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I also like to watch spirited discussions like these and other related issues.  I also follow other distros too!  I like Fedora, and thus comply and test out nouveau, but at the same time am somewhat dissapointed in that I ask for help on how to compile nouveau on a kernel from kernel.org and not a Fedora kernel.  The fedora kernels have dracut and do this automagically and I try to copy the same kernel configuration to build new kernel, it builds and installs, I reboot, I log into level 3 then startx and X fails to load :(, I want to use the nouveau but they(kernel guys/nouvveau guys make it to cryptic, YES, i read the howto/wiki page, it does me no good).  So here, I have to agree with Bill, in using Fedora 10 I had no choice but use Nvidia drivers and I successfully loaded the "evil" drivers.  I am content running nouveau now with Fedora 12 but only fedora kernels, I want to compile/roll my own kernels too, but the documentation is lacking for

Until very recently Nouveau wasn't upstream, so it wasn't going to work
with kernel.org kernels without a lot of work. You might find it more
practical to do this with F13 and beyond now that Nouveau is in the upstream
kernel.