Re: Preupgrade to rawhide?

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 00:43 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 01:35 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> The blacklist should solve my problem and the system-config-display hack 
> >> should work with working systems. But the install issue still remains. I 
> >> think this issue needs attention before release.
> >>     
> >
> > not really. the appropriate thing to work on is fixing nouveau.
> >
> >   
> I am not that optimistic. But as reported in bugzilla, the nomodeset 
> kernel parameter works. Is there any reason that the install can't use 
> nomodeset?

because we don't want to spend our time maintaining a large database of
what cards to use kms for and what cards not to?

why aren't you optimistic, anyway? nouveau bugs are generally fixed
quite rapidly.

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