blind Pete <0123peter@gmail.com> wrote:

My test computer has an old nVidia card in it.  

Mageia 3 alpha installs quite happily on it, but 
it won't boot to a GUI.  It gives error messages 
about nouveau, even though the modules has been 
deleted and XFdrake run to try "nv" then "vesa".  

BTW there is also an EDID check sum error from 
the monitor which could be confusing things.  

There is a repeat of 8 lines of hex data and
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1

I only solved this after modding my init-rd:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248/

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.

I think I still had to mod initrd even though the rpms with the stuff were gone, but I'm not 100% sure.

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.

My experience was with 2.

Kbulgrien

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