[opensuse-gnome] NVIDIA observation
My old-ish ThinkPad has an nVidia (173 series) GeForce FX Go5200 card and never looked better than when I booted the Official GNOME 3 Live DVD System (so good that I soon installed it). Since I use that machine for testing, over the course of the past six months I've also installed Debian's, Fedora's and Mageia's GNOME 3 desktops which all run the nouveau driver, and all give me a multi-coloured, striped top bar and messed-up desktop fonts. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining the perfection of the original Live DVD, I re-installed it this week (and I was right, it's perfect). What did openSUSE get right ten months ago that still isn't right elsewhere? Is it safe to upgrade from GNOME 3.0? (I have GNOME Factory installed on my production laptop which has Radeon graphics, and on my production desktop which has a much newer nVidia card -- btw on the latter I don't get a GDM login screen on startup, just Console 1). Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
Le mardi 14 février 2012 à 15:45 -0500, Michael Hill a écrit :
My old-ish ThinkPad has an nVidia (173 series) GeForce FX Go5200 card and never looked better than when I booted the Official GNOME 3 Live DVD System (so good that I soon installed it). Since I use that machine for testing, over the course of the past six months I've also installed Debian's, Fedora's and Mageia's GNOME 3 desktops which all run the nouveau driver, and all give me a multi-coloured, striped top bar and messed-up desktop fonts. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining the perfection of the original Live DVD, I re-installed it this week (and I was right, it's perfect).
What did openSUSE get right ten months ago that still isn't right elsewhere? Is it safe to upgrade from GNOME 3.0? (I have GNOME Factory installed on my production laptop which has Radeon graphics, and on my production desktop which has a much newer nVidia card -- btw on the latter I don't get a GDM login screen on startup, just Console 1).
Well, I didn't do anything special in the GNOME 3 Live CD regarding
Nvidia, except shipping xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau and Mesa-nouveau
(it was a separate package in 11.3, it was merged into Mesa main
package).
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Frederic Crozat
On 15/02/12 20:21, Frederic Crozat wrote:
My old-ish ThinkPad has an nVidia (173 series) GeForce FX Go5200 card and never looked better than when I booted the Official GNOME 3 Live DVD System (so good that I soon installed it). Since I use that machine for testing, over the course of the past six months I've also installed Debian's, Fedora's and Mageia's GNOME 3 desktops which all run the nouveau driver, and all give me a multi-coloured, striped top bar and messed-up desktop fonts. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining the perfection of the original Live DVD, I re-installed it this week (and I was right, it's perfect).
What did openSUSE get right ten months ago that still isn't right elsewhere? Is it safe to upgrade from GNOME 3.0? (I have GNOME Factory installed on my production laptop which has Radeon graphics, and on my production desktop which has a much newer nVidia card -- btw on the latter I don't get a GDM login screen on startup, just Console 1). Well, I didn't do anything special in the GNOME 3 Live CD regarding Nvidia, except shipping xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau and Mesa-nouveau (it was a separate package in 11.3, it was merged into Mesa main
Le mardi 14 février 2012 à 15:45 -0500, Michael Hill a écrit : package).
I have no idea how what I am about to state may contribute to this discussion but I also have an FX 5200 video card and I recall having - I think that it was Felix Miata or was it Rajko? cannot recall - stating that he runs his monitor using this video card in digital mode (ie, using a DVI cable). While my card also has a DVI outlet I just cannot use digital on it but it will only work in analogue mode. The reason for this it would appear is that there are a number of variations of this FX 5200 card, all called FX 5200 but they are not all the same. BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Basil Chupin
The reason for this it would appear is that there are a number of variations of this FX 5200 card, all called FX 5200 but they are not all the same.
Sounds like it... mine only has VGA out. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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