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F11 to F12 doesn't seem to like legacy Nvidia cards.

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Greets all and congrats on the developers on bringing us another great version of Fedora. My box has an Nvidia GForce4 MMX 440 SE 64MB SDRam. I downloaded and updated from F11 to F12 last night. Before I went to bed It booted to a blank screen, GDM didn't want to start. I decided to investigate in the morning and went to bed. The first problem I found was that the F11 Legacy Nvidia Drivers were causing a problem, so I had to remove those. I also did an update with yum to get everything 100% updated. Then rebooted, more problems. GDM did NOT want to start for anything. More investigating found that the culprit was this nouveau kernel mod. Well, I had the xorg nouveau driver installed and I thought that this might be one in the same so I removed the xorg one with no avail, the nouveau kernal mod still loading. Seems that they are different and one is used for the xorg server and the other is used for the framebuffer console. I had to pass nouveau.modset=0 to the kernel at boot time to rid myself of the framebuffer. GDM starts now and I have resinstalled the xorg Nvidia nouveau driver though I have not tested it as of yet. Is there a better way at disabling the framebuffer boot up then by passing things to the kernel? (HowTos)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 11/18/2009

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Hello,I was using nouveau with xf86-video-nouveau for some time on my Laptop with GeForce 6150 and AMD Dualcore CPU.Now I wanted to switch back to nvidia or nvidia-ck-kx to be preciese since I'm using the CK Kernel. I have used the CKKernel with nvidia-ck driver before.So I installed nvidia-ck-kx and nvidia-utils to replace libgl with it.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 on a notebook HP Elibook 8540w, working with the recommended additional NVidia driver. The graphic card is a QUADRO FX 1800M.

Hi,

After the latest kernel update, bumblebee and the nvidia drivers fail. I decided to simply revert back to nouveau drivers but that doesn't work. I believe I have deleted everything relevant: dkms, bbswitch, bumblebee, nvidia drivers, xorg files...

Tried: ACPI=noirq" (made no difference)Tried:rmmod nvidiamodprobe nvidiastartx(Didnt start up)Tried uninstalling nvidia & installing nouveau instead.:Didn't boot & startup hanged - had to add nomodeset in order to get to the commandline. So it looks like the nvidia driver is working in some respects.

I want to install new nvidia drivers R310 so I downloaded driver and when I run it it says that i can't install new drivers because there is this nouveau driver. It asked me if I want to add blacklist file with nouveau in modprobe so I said yes please.

I have a problem with this configuration:

Asus K55V, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Nvidia driver 304.51.

I have remove the nouveau driver with:

apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

I installed the official nvidia driver (from www.nvidia.com) but when I reboot the PC the resolution of screen is only 640x480 and the monitor is resized.

Mo solution at this problem if i change the xorg.conf.

So I was recently trying to fix some minor video problems I was having on 12.04, and in the process I foolishly installed an NVIDIA driver. Previously I was using the nouveau driver, and loving every minute of it, but now I can't seem to turn it back on.

I'm trying to install proprietary nvidia graphics driver I downloaded from nvidia website. It will not install because it says that the "Nouveau kernel driver" needs to be disabled first.

I opened synaptic and uninstalled everything that had nvidia, nouveau, or jockey in its name. It still won't work.

What exactly do I need to do to disable the "Nouveau kernel driver"?

I try to switch from nvidia to nouveau driver via script:

!/bin/bash

stop gdm

rmmod nvidia

sed -i "s/nouveau/nvidia/" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf

update-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/mesa/ld.so.conf ldconfig

modprobe nouveau

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf{.nouveau,}

start gdm

and driver is loaded and X started but compiz it doesn't.