2009-03-26 - Fedora Test Day - Nouveau graphics driver

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 26 15:41:35 UTC 2009


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:43:17PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 17:40:19 -0500,
>>   Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>>> I must be doing something wrong, but enabling modeset on grub boot tells
>>> me incorrect parameter?  If you wanted to edit your grub.conf itself and
>>> add it there , would someone post theirs and show me what line and how
>>> it's set for it to work?  I've done it via grub.conf and tried via just
>>> boot up and adding it before booting and either way gives me an error.
>> modeset is the default. You use nomodeset to turn it off.
> 
> This wasn't my experience on the Test Day Live image.  I had to use
> the modeset parameter to explicitly enable modesetting.

Modesetting is only on by default on ATI and Intel. Nvidia, it is opt-in.

Rahul




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