Description of problem: Previously [1] the only way to successfully boot Fedora on a MacBook Pro 5,1 was to disable acceleration for nouveau (using the nouveau.noaccel=1 command-line parameter) - HOWEVER with Fedora 18 even this doesn't work. Without noaccel - Machine Check Error occurs With noaccel - Freezes after trying to start gdm (I think) So now the only way to boot at all is to use nomodeset - however in this case gdm fails to start (I'll try and attach an Xorg.0.log later if I can get it off the live environment). The only way to then successfully start a graphical login and run the installer is to install the proprietary drivers inside the live environment [2] and manually rmmod nouveau; modprobe nvidia; systemctl restart gdm [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679583 [2] http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Created attachment 645609 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log when booting with nomodeset
I have a similar problem with MBP 3,1. Everything goes well (apart from screen flickering but that was in F17, see [1]) up to the point of starting X where it hangs, showing the 2 last messages from the boot sequence. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825497
Created attachment 653128 [details] Xorg log - MBP 3,1 - no custom boot options - FC18 Beta release
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