F17 beta, GeForce FX5200 and g.s. fallback

[lewis41]

Hi all, last week I installed the Fedora 17 beta. All went good except for a partition problem (there should be a bug).
Now I've no gnome shell: only fallback. Can I hope to re-see it in the next days when the problem will be resolved or my Geforce FX 5200 that worked fine in F16 will not more supported? Should I report a bug in Bugzilla for this problem?

Thanks, developers & others (QA, moderator, free FSF supporters, etc),
Luigi

[Dan]

There's a bug in nouveau that makes a total mess out of Gnome Shell. Until that one is ironed out, we're stuck in fallback mode. I've un-blacklisted it manually ... and the results ain't pretty.

EDIT: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277844

[lewis41]

Thanks for quick replay: So i will wait for nouveau upstream corrections.

[g8jvm]

Hi

I was just about to load the Beta, and saw this thread, I've a GT520 card in mine, Is this problem across all Nvidia cards, If so I'll hang fire a Bit until that bug is cleared.
thanks
Richard

[DBelton]

No, the problem is just with the older NV3x series cards. That is the older Geforce FX and Geforce 6000 series. Newer cards aren't affected by that issue.

[lewis41]

Using the suggestions in comment #94 of bug #745202 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745202#c94) I get a gnome shell experience, (though exremely slow: I must buy a new PC).

[Dan]

(though exremely slow: I must buy a new PC)


Perhaps not.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279072

Post #44.