Today I performed a yum upgrade to F18 from F17. It went pretty smoothly I must say. The only problem I have had is getting the proprietary NVIDIA driver working. If I load the system without an 'xorg.conf' file it loads the default drivers just fine. When specifying the nvidia driver, however, the system will not load the display manager. Shell access is still available though. Is the proprietary driver ready for prime time yet or should I be more patient?
Code:
[vespa@qwerty ~]$ rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.17-2.fc18.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-304.60-1.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.17-1.fc18.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-27.fc18.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-25.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.60-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.60-1.fc18.x86_64
3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64
nouveau 890739 0
mxm_wmi 12823 1 nouveau
wmi 18697 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 13257 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 44701 1 nouveau
ttm 79760 1 nouveau
drm 255010 3 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_core 38314 6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
video 18936 1 nouveau
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory