Description of problem: With a new install, the vesa driver was chosen. nv does not bring up X 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M (rev a2) (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30ea Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Kernel modules: nvidiafb Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.8-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: edit xorg.conf or try to create a new file using s-c-display --reconfig and select the nv driver. Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit out vesa 2. add nv 3. launch X, runlevel 3 or when gdm fails to launch Actual results: screen not found with a ling delay before returned to prompt. Expected results: nv to work since GPU is NVidia Additional info: Attached Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 301449 [details] log from runlevel 3 trying to use nv driver
nv doesn't support (especially newer) nVidia chips equally well (or poorly, depending on your opinion about nv driver). You can try nouveau driver but it is still pretty raw and not stable enough (most of the time, it works well for some people).
Alright, I'll count out the nv driver from ever working with this video card. I tried nouveau and it locks up with two a characters with an accent above them and with a flashing character that looks like e cent sign but as a capital C would look. I was hoping that the nv driver would work but did not know the ID for this GPU type.
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