nVidia support and due diligence failure

[Doug]

On 11/15/2012 10:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 03:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally died.  My old card had a GT 230 chip.  I check and brought http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeName with me shopping.  I noted that my card was in the NV50 family.  This seems to have good support and I had not problems.  So, I figured I'd a new card in the same family.
>>
>> I got a GT215/GT240.  Imagine my surprise when it hung on booting into graphical mode with the Fedora Icon displayed.  The /var/log/messages file shows lots of
>>
>> Nov 15 13:55:26 meimei kernel: [   69.226738] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011fde03 0x00145b4d 0x0000002d 0x0034db40
>> Nov 15 13:55:34 meimei kernel: [   75.562699] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Failed to idle channel 2.
>>
>> messages.
>>
>> Anyway, I really need to get my system up and running so I just installed kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion and had done with it.
>>
>> I thought I did all I needed to do to come out with a working system running nouveau.  Either I missed something or buying the right nVidia card supported by nouveau is hit or miss.  Yes, I know there is no love lost between "Linux" and nVidia.
>>
>>
> FWIW, I should have checked bugzilla before going shopping.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754882
>
> Oh well.  Live and Learn...again.
>
Looked up the GT240 for Linux and found an NVidia driver at 
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

You badmouth nVidia, but they seem to have Linux drivers for an awful 
lot of cards, usually in deb and rpm formats, and binary files.
It is true that you will have a tough time finding phone help for Linux 
from them.
Have you tried any of this?

--doug