NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/31/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
>
> Roo schrieb:
> > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:23:28 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it I installed
> >> NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6 On reboot, it gets all the
> >> way to the second X start and the screen then just goes black and
> >> nothing happens I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing
> >> "a" when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt - that
> >> didn't work Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
> >> same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just a black
> >> screen Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result Anyone else
> >> encountered this?
> >
> > It's a known problem with the beta drivers. You need this:
> >
> > modprobe -r eeprom
> >
> > as root, before X starts.
>
> Is it that bad that we (livna developers) should integrate that into the
> package? Anyone interested in doing that?

It would prolly make alot more sense to integrate the driver patch
which fixes the bug:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=996233&postcount=20


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