F15 RC3 at Caddyshack

Lawrence E Graves lgraves at risingstarmbc.com
Sun May 15 12:08:15 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 06:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 01:11:24 -0700,
>   Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com> wrote:
> > 1. Setting network params in the install was ignored by the installed Linux.
> > 
> > 2. It takes a bit of hacking to get the Nvidia driver into a Fedora 15 that
> > was installed with Noveau.
> > 
> > Given that the anointed Gnome 3 needs a competent X driver, Fedora 15
> > should make installing Nvidia or ATI easy.  Ubuntu usually gets this right,
> > and so should Fedora.
> 
> Nouveau supports 3d these days, though not everything the nVidia drivers
> do. As do the radeon drivers (except for the very latest cards). So for most
> people things should work reasonably with Fedora's drivers.
> 
> Did you have problems with the driver from the RPMFusion project? Those
> are the guys that work on making the proprietary drivers easy to install.
> Fedora can't include them because the are non-free.
I have discovered if you wait until you have done your first update to
install Nvidia drivers, there is a better success rate. I did not have
any trouble installing the nvidia drivers.
-- 
Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com> 
All things are workable but don't all things work.
Proverbs 3:5&6



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