[olug] Graphics Card for Fedora 10

[Adam Lassek]

No, it's there. I just upgraded my media center to Intrepid. There's hardly
anything in it; mostly just the monitor, screen and driver sections.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:43 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> Very cool.  I haven't looked at F10 yet because F9 really turned me
> off with a KDE4-only-yet-not-ready-for-primetime release.  That being
> said, I think Fedora and openSUSE are the two biggest innovators out
> there, largely because Red Hat and Novell have the cash to pay
> developers.
>
> I heard in Ubuntu there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all anymore.
> You can create one, but you would have to create one from scratch.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
> > No, you can still edit xorg.conf, you just won't have to anymore. A lot
> of
> > the boilerplate entries have been removed because X.Org's
> autoconfiguration
> > features make them unneccessary, which I think is a very good thing. It's
> a
> > lot less intimidating than it used to be back in the XFree86 days.
> >
> > The GUI, when released, is basically just a frontend for xorg.conf.
> They've
> > released the Python Parser and Validation engines, I believe, but the GUI
> > interface isn't complete yet. It's been designed to be desktop agnostic,
> so
> > when the GTK interface is done they plan on creating a Qt version as
> well.
> >
> > Here's the project
> > blueprint<
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xorg-options-editor>on
> > Launchpad.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> You should be able to just hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a CLI, kill
> >> gdm/kdm/whatever, and then check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make necessary
> >> changes.  Then again Ubuntu completely dumped /etc/X11/xorg.conf so
> >> you can't make manual changes anymore.  I wonder if F10 did the same.
> >>
> >> You should be able to fail back and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it
> >> exists and just load a Vesa video driver for the moment being until
> >> you get it sorted out.
> >>
> >> -- T. J.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net>
> wrote:
> >> > What GPU are those cards using? I think the open-source nv driver
> started
> >> > supporting G80 GPUs this summer, so Fedora 10 should have support for
> >> that.
> >> > I wouldn't count on 9000 series cards working, you'll still need the
> >> nVidia
> >> > driver.
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I've looked around the usual google/fedora sources for a recommended
> >> >> pci-express ati/nvidia graphics card. No joy. Does anyone know one
> that
> >> >> works
> >> >> on installation. I have a couple that give me a scrambled or black
> >> screen.
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