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

Sat Mar 3 14:29:38 CET 2012

2012/3/3 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 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...
+
+After todays updates the issues are resolved:
+
+1. After reconfiguring X and reboot the proprietary driver was
+accepted and Gnome 3 started without problems
+2. After removing all net connections and recreating wlan0 (in MCC
+without enabling networkmanager) wifi is working again
+3. Input on ttys is back to white on black
+
+-- 
+wobo
+