I don't think the nouveau drivers are ready for primetime. Even some of the redhat folks on #fedora indicate they tried nouveau and went back to kmod-nvidia -- 190.53-3.fc12.x86_64 works fine w/ the quiet and power-efficient integrated onboard NVidia video on ASUS M2N68-VM mobo (YMoboMV)<div>
<br></div><div>I have the following installed on that <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4312771&CatId=3371">opteron 1220 desktop</a>:</div><div><br></div><div><div>kmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64</div>
<div>xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.53-2.fc12.x86_64</div><div>nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc12.x86_64</div><div>xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.53-2.fc12.x86_64</div><div>nvidia-settings-1.0-3.4.fc12.x86_64</div><div>kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64</div>
<div><br></div><div>For details, see <a href="http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/">http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html">http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html</a></div>
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nouveau - 3D hardware accelerated open source driver. This driver is is GPL and with Fedora 10 and older, it was not installed. However it is installed and enabled by default in Fedora 11 and newer. This is a development/experimental driver intended to support 3D accelerated graphics, but currently only supports 2D.</blockquote>
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nvidia - 3D hardware accelerated closed source proprietary driver. This driver is provided only from Nvidia and provides the best high performance video and 3D functionality.</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
nv - 2D open source driver. This driver is GPL included in any distribution that includes the X-server and was default in Fedora 10 and older. This driver provides only basic 2D support and has mostly been replaced withnouveau.</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>As I just want the damn thing to work and don't care about kernel tainting, I chose 'nvidia' and</div><div>'kmod-nvidia' ... The only caveat with this option is that you should watch out for kernel updates where kmod-nvidia (a "meta package") can't find the corresponding kernel module (because they get pushed to update servers at different times). Sometimes the kernel appears first, and then the kmod, and if you accidentally update, you could boot into a nongraphic system. Also, if you do update, the new kmod overwrites the old and you could end up w/ a nongraphic system just by logging out and back in before rebooting...<div>
<br></div><div>Recently, for example, the kernel updated but ther matching kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64 wasn't there yet. At the same time, there was the whole blunder with a new NSS propagating w/o a dependency ... to take care of the whole mess all at once:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>sudo yum update --exclude kernel-firmware --exclude kernel-headers --exclude kernel --exclude kernel-devel --exclude nss --exclude 'nss-*'</div><div><br></div><div>And then a few days later (yesterday), i finally did a regular 'yum update' and picked up all the problematic packages, after things settled down.</div>
<div><br></div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a><br><br></div></div>