F12/nouveau drivers for nvidia question

[maflynn]

I may try this once the RC version of F12 is out, but can anyone report on how compatible F12/nouveau drivers are on a nvidia GeForce 9600M GT

I had to installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on my MacBook Pro (running GeForce 9600M GT) because the nouveau drivers didn't seem to work too well. In fact I had to change xdriver=vesa during install.

I'm hoping its a bit a better under fedora 12, but I don't want to nuke my fedora 11 partition until at the very least the RC is released (I need Linux to do my work)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Why not try the Live CD?

[maflynn]

Do'h

Yeah, I'll download that tonight and give it a shot

[AdamW]

let us know how it goes!

[maflynn]

The live cd didn't work :(

I got the following error message after the 10 second auto boot countdown.

[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0 pramin flush timeout

[AdamW]

try booting kernel parameter 'nomodeset', does that change anything?

[maflynn]

Let me give that a try but being a n00b do I type in nomodeset after hitting the tab key for the parameters?

[maflynn]

I got a little further, I got beyond the error message. It appeared to boot but I got a black screen that just sat there

[AdamW]

yep, that's the right way to do it.

do you get a text console if you do ctrl-alt-f2 at the black screen?

[typerlc]

Also try adding the word "single" (without quotes) after nomodeset, then it will boot only in text mode.

When it boots, edit the file /etc/inittab, and change 5 to 3 on the last line.

Then type "reboot".

This will make the system always boot without a graphical desktop. To start the desktop manually, you can login at the console and type "startx".

To restore boot to graphical mode, edit the above file, change 3 to 5, and reboot again.

[maflynn]

yep, that's the right way to do it.

do you get a text console if you do ctrl-alt-f2 at the black screen?
No, I'll try that tonight.


Also try adding the word "single" (without quotes) after nomodeset, then it will boot only in text mode.

When it boots, edit the file /etc/inittab, and change 5 to 3 on the last line.

Then type "reboot".

This will make the system always boot without a graphical desktop. To start the desktop manually, you can login at the console and type "startx".

To restore boot to graphical mode, edit the above file, change 3 to 5, and reboot again.

Once I tried getting to text mode I'll edit the inittab and see if that resolves the problem.

[maflynn]

I gave the live cd another shot this evening adding the single after nomodeset. That booted into the console. As it was booting I got the following error

enabling /etc/fstab swap: [ok]
plymouthd: ply-event-loop.c:729:ply_event_loop_stop_watching_fd: Assertion 'watch !=((void*)0)' failed
error: unexpectedly disconnected from status daemon

The command prompt came back after that message and I was able to edit /etc/inittab changing the 5 to the 3. I rebooted and then tried startx

The same error occurred black screen (but the backlight was on, so its not your typical black screen).

ctl-alt-F2 failed to do anything at that point.

[AdamW]

I think we may have got all the instructions crossed up at some point :)

I wanted you to try booting with *just* nomodeset . Not single or 3, just nomodeset.

[maflynn]

I did, that was the first test and it failed as well (ctl-alt-f2 didn't work)

I then added single after nomodeset which got me into the terminal and I was able to edit inittab but issuing startx after the reboot failed to help matters, the same exact symptoms occured.

Black screen (with the backlight on) keyboard was unresponsive, in that ctl-alt-f2 did not produce anything.

[AdamW]

ah, OK. thanks.

can you boot to runlevel 3 (no need to boot single and edit inittab, all you have to do is boot with the parameter '3'), try startx , let it fail, then boot back to runlevel 3 and take a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? that may give us some information about the failure. thanks!

[asheguy79]

I am having the very same problem with my Nvidia card, it is a GT 120 with 1GB dedicated RAM.