Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:04:04PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > (nouveau/radeon). And that the interaction of Gnome 3 with the > > proprietary drivers hasn't been checked (so that you can still > > run Gnome 3 if nouveau/radeo

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > (nouveau/radeon). And that the interaction of Gnome 3 with the > proprietary drivers hasn't been checked (so that you can still > run Gnome 3 if nouveau/radeon does not work or works badly). Binary drivers were checked. Nvidia s

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:55:29AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:> Ed Greshko & Rahul Sundaram > > Hardly necessary as nouveau 3D is still a work in progress. > The work in progress is guided by feedback from users. I would consider > it necessary As a result of the community spirit your combin

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/19/2011 07:54 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > Well Gnome 3 does require 3D hardware acceleration. To be more accurate, GNOME Shell requires hardware acceleration. Fallback mode in GNOME 3 does not and work is being done upstream, Adam Jackson, Red Hat Xorg developer to make software re

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/19/2011 10:24 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:26:21PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Well, I ran GNOME 3 just fine with my GT 230 and nouveau. So, I don't >> know what to make of your earlier post that said Gnome 3 requires HW >> acceleration or that it wasn't up t

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:26:21PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, I ran GNOME 3 just fine with my GT 230 and nouveau. So, I don't > know what to make of your earlier post that said Gnome 3 requires HW > acceleration or that it wasn't up to the task of running GNOME 3. Well Gnome 3 does requir

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:39:12AM +, Mark Eggers wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:25:51 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who (maybe) have the > > same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in a Dell Dimension E520 and have > > also experienced

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/19/2011 09:05 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > But I find it just a TINY bit exasperating that Gnome 3 has been > be foisted on the world when it is known that the drivers necessary > to appreciate it are not available and won't be available soon > (nouveau/radeon). And that the interaction of

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:56:31AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/18/2011 06:25 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who > > (maybe) have the same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in > > a Dell Dimension E520 and have also experienced (and maybe > >

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-17 Thread Mark Eggers
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:25:51 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who (maybe) have the > same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in a Dell Dimension E520 and have > also experienced (and maybe solved) this problem. > Suggestions on how to solve the prob

Re: Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/18/2011 06:25 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I would appreciate hearing from Fed15/Gnome3 users who > (maybe) have the same graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE in > a Dell Dimension E520 and have also experienced (and maybe > solved) this problem. > Suggestions on how to solve the problem (if pos

Again: the Nvidia driver does not work with Gnome 3

2011-06-17 Thread Alexander Volovics
A couple of weeks ago I posted a mail specifying a problem I had with the Nvidia driver under Fed15/Gnome3. Using either kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia from Rpmfusion the driver installs OK, the necessary modeset=0 and rdblacklist are added to the kernel line in grub.conf and an xorg.conf file added