Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 8 Oct 2013 at 10:25, Reindl Harald wrote:

Date sent:	Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:25:39 +0200
From:	Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
Organization:	the lounge interactive design
To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>, 
	Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject:	Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

> 
> Am 08.10.2013 10:19, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
> >> Am 08.10.2013 09:37, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
> >>> I have a classroom that currently has Fedora 17, and tested a
> >>> machine booting from the livecd via flash and the gnome3 worked? I
> >>> then upgraded a machine to fedora 19, and gnome classic, KDE, and
> >>> xfce work, but the gnome comes back with an error. The is also
> >>> openbox, but it comes up with a blank screen, but clicking will
> >>> bring up a menu and then seems to work?
> >>>
> >>> Gnome come up with this error, and goes back to the login 
> >>> screen.
> >>>
> >>> Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
> >>>
> >>> With a notebook had an issue, but setting up dmlight fixed that
> >>> problem, but did the same here, and still same results.
> >>>
> >>> Note clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the
> >>> fedup upgrade to 19 it doesn't?
> >>
> >> because the live image does not use the nvidia BLOB driver?
> >>
> > How would one get the fedup upgrade to not use the nvidia BLOB
> > driver? What is the nvidia BLOB?
> 
> the nvidia binary drivers - BLOB = binary large object
> 
> > Long ago, I had actually used the nvidia drivers, but they stopped
> > supporting the cards many versions ago
> 
> which you did not mention in your initial post
> 
> do you have a xorg.conf?
> if yes try to delete it, recent linux setups do not need them

no xorg.conf, many versions ago it was removed. 

> 
> 


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