nvidia/nouveau problem

[Per Bothner]

On 04/20/2011 01:58 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> I have been following this thread about the nvidia and nouveau problem.
> I had the problem in my installation too until I installed using the
> "install with basic video drive" the second choice down on the
> installation choices page and I am having good success with my
> installation. I installed the Beta release on a Dell 9400 Inspirion,
> FX2500 video card, 4g Hyperx memory, T7700 processor.

This may the same effect as specifying nomodeset on the grub kernel line.
That seems to work - it boots fairly cleanly, with no long pause.

However, the downside is pretty bad: Maximum resolution of 1280x014,
and it doesn't detect an external display.
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