[Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

Sat Mar 3 00:38:30 CET 2012

2012/3/3 Barry Jackson <zen25000 at zen.co.uk>:
+> On 02/03/12 16:53, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> 2012/3/2 Wolfgang Bornath<molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>>>
+>>> whould be fixed with coming updates.
+>>
+>>
+>> should be fixed....
+>> Sorry.
+>>
+> Seems this was not the problem for you, but my FX series card has had no
+> nvidia available since x11 was updated before Christmas.
+> I think I need a new graphic card :(
+
+Well, I don't know, but after last update tonight (mirror sync status
+23:01 Paris time) the complete system which was working fine is now
+hosed anyway.
+
+1. Nouveau driver still there (although I tried with XFdrake to get
+the nvidia re-installed), but that did not make my system unusable
+before
+2. wifi connection totally lost (not possible to get a connection,
+whichever way I tried)
+3. After system start the system now displays a message that it can
+not start Gnome 3 because my graphic system is possibly not able to
+run in normal Gnome 3, so it starts in a somehow "compatibility mode".
+/etc/X11/xorg.conf shows that the nouveau driver is working, which
+never had problems with Gnome 3.
+4. I switched to tty2, and was presented with my keyboard now writing
+in black! Trying to write 'asdf' does not show any character but
+hitting enter returns 'asdf: command not found"
+
+Points 2, 3, 4 occurred at reboot after the update.
+I'll call it a day...
+
+-- 
+wobo
+