How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu May 27 08:41:10 UTC 2010


On 05/26/2010 05:37 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
>> I run the proprietary, closed source nvidia driver in F12.  What happens
>> when I upgrade to F13 ?
>>
> The short answer is that you may have to boot in vesafb mode and install the 
> driver using that. If that doesn't work booting in run level three and upgrading 
> your driver from CLI.

That's what I used to do, and it worked fine.  These days nouveau works
so well that I don't bother with the proprietary driver.

Andrew.


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