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<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">blind Pete <0123peter@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px">My test computer has an old nVidia card in it. <br /><br />Mageia 3 alpha installs quite happily on it, but <br />it won't boot to a GUI. It gives error messages <br />about nouveau, even though the modules has been <br />deleted and XFdrake run to try "nv" then "vesa". <br /><br />BTW there is also an EDID check sum error from <br />the monitor which could be confusing things. <br /><br />There is a repeat of 8 lines of hex data and<br />[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1 <br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I only solved this after modding my init-rd:<br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248</a>/<br>
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Later I realized I could force uninstall all the rpms that had to do with nouveau even though urpme wouldn't let me do it.<br>
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I think I still had to mod initrd even though the rpms with the stuff were gone, but I'm not 100% sure.<br>
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I could not compile a real nVidia for old TNT2 cards and got no sympathy from the nvidia forums. I used nv but its opengl was slow and I found a cheap newer card somewhere.<br>
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My experience was with 2.<br>
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Kbulgrien<br>
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Sent from my Android tablet. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html></body></html>
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