Description of problem: the nv driver does not work with the nvidia quadro fx570m. The proprietary nvidia driver works, but fedora fails to boot on every other attempt. Fedora must be restarted improperly by holding the power button for it to boot the next time, or it hangs at a blank screen. The screen also fails to dim if running on battery power, and suspend does not work. How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. complete a text install of f7 and fully update it, on a computer with the nvidia quadro fx570m card. 2. install the proprietary nvidia driver 3. edit /etc/inittab so fedora boots to runlevel 5 by default 4. reboot the computer Actual results: fedora 7 hangs at a blank screen Expected results: fedora 7 boots correctly
Thanks for the report. We are sorry that we cannot help you with your problem, but we are not able to support binary-only drivers. If you would be able to reproduce this issue using only open source software, please, reopen this bug with the additional information, but in meantime I have no choice than to close this bug as CANTFIX (because we really cannot fix it). For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
Well, there are two issues here. One being the problem that fedora fails to boot every other time with the proprietary nvidia driver, and I cannot tell whether the source of that problem lies with the nvidia driver, or fedora. It can be resolved, though, because sabayon boots on the same computer every time with the nvidia driver enabled. the second problem is that the nv driver fails to work completely with this videocard, and that is clearly an open source problem.
Read, what I have pasted there -- go ahead and reopen the bug if you are able to reproduce the problem with nv driver AND ATTACH THE LOG FROM THAT CONFIGURATION. That's the point -- we need to see what nv driver sees on your computer (which is unfortunately not the same what nvidia driver sees).