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it'll work out of the box for typical 2D stuff. For experimental 3D you can install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental . 2 years is just my guess, but that's a pretty long time in X development circles

Those are modes supported by the VESA specification, not the X.Org 'vesa' video driver (Fedora RPM = xorg-x11-drv-vesa). To the best of my knowledge, last time I checked, driver = vesa won't cough up more than 1024x768. Although I could be wrong on this... . Perhaps the "default" vesa mode has been raised from 800x600 to 1024x768, but more is theoretically possible ? It never seems to give me more than ~800x600. V

Quote: Originally Posted by Hlingler No: video driver = vesa: it is the "uber-generic" fall-back for use whenever all else fails - such as in the case of "poulsbo" chipset where there simply is no other video driver available. And there is no other video driver available, as AdamW has pointed out: xorg-x11-drv-psb has not been ported yet to F12 Xorg implementation. Driver = vesa will not provide higher than...

Yes, I've been in "nomodeset" this whole time. and you are correct I am on GNOME desktop. Running it on a 6930p HP Elitebook.

update #2 ok, after 2 further discharge/freeze overnight/recharge cycles there is ..... not much difference! The battery is stuck at a ~30% capacity and discharging fully in ~1hr (in a gnome session, with wifi enabled and netbook screen slightly dimmed) But I least I found I could get the ~1 hour usage by 'killall gnome-power-manager', as I mentioned, the calibration is off, and g-p-m thinks it's critical after just a few...

Quote: Originally Posted by deathspeeder Maybe you can find some clues from the log file, for example /var/log/nvidia-installer.log. i try it too...the first time with Gcc problem, after i installed it ,another one C++ appears and now kernel....i don't know wht to do now.....>,< HELP.....i need a fedora doctor.

I finally managed to get it to work.. in Windows. Mind you, the video never worked, only the Mic and even that was starting to give me trouble. But it IS a Microsoft webcam, and Microsoft doesn't do anything unless there is competition! I took my son's el-cheap-o digital camera that also works as a webcam, and plugged it in and tried it in Skype. I was surprised, Skype detected it with no problems. Unfortunately there is no mic on...

I am not an expert on this, but I think anywhere between " kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root " and " initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686.img " should be fine (using the example).

Ok, i got it now. Well, thanks for your time and clarification on this "learning experience". I'm going to download Ubuntu for him, and see where that goes . Thanx

As to the X Development circles, in my experience Linux never sticks to the schedule. And as long as the OSS drivers support Crossfire and Overclocking in the future, that's good! If not, I will probably stick to fglrx. And I admit that I am fine with assembly hacks in flash, so long as my youtube videos are smooth.