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Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

Alex Midence writes:

Hi,

I seem to remember Ubuntu having drivers for Nvidia.  Is this not correct?


Sure. I think every Linux distro has nvidea drivers. Nvidea is far too
common to ignore. However, I believe they're all reverse-engineered
drivers. Or, perhaps some are released from time to time by Nvidea
itself, I don't recall off hand which is the Nividea case.

Still, reverse engineered means guess work.

And, vendor released drivers often don't track related Linux
technology well. Also, if vendor released, the user needs to know to get
the driver from the vendor and install it correctly. Proprietary vendor
drivers are not going to be packaged by Linux distributions, so you
can't expect to find them on a Live image.

So, the moral of the story is avoid Nvidea unless you actually want to
mess with these kinds of constraints--arguably a peculiar  choice for a
screen reader user.

Janina


Alex M



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 9:41 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

Glad to hear your video signal issue is resolved, Robert.

As an FYI for the future, problems with nvidea are pretty much endemic.
That company doesn't open their technology, therefore open source
environments like Linux frequently have problems with their devices.
It's not at all Fedora specific, by the way.

Janina

Robert Cole writes:

Thanks, Janina and Jason.

I think my problem was more so related to the nVidia driver than 
anything. I added a variable (GRUB_GFXMODE) into /etc/default/grub and 
set IT to an appropriate resolution, updated my GRUB configuration 
file with "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg', and everything 
seems to be working. I had a slight scare today because I had no video 
at all, but my system seems to be up and running just fine now. I was 
worried that something had happened to my monitor or video card, but I 
think my oldest son (who is almost
three) got onto my desk and got into my cables. Fortunately everything 
is working just fine now!

Thanks for the help and the suggestions.

On 06/18/2012 07:54 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:

If I recall correctly, Robert installed from a Fedora Live image. 
Those images are necessarilyminimal, especially as they still try to 
fit themselves onto CD ROM media.

My first expectation is a missing library of some kind.

If this is correct, it points out the value of preferring the full 
version DVD image. However, there's still no reason to reinstall as 
entire groups of related technologies can be installed by yum. To see 
a list of these groups, do:

yum grouplist

You'll need to pipe this to more, or even into a file. Also, the 
groups sometimes have spaces, so need special handling when you do the:

yum groupinstall [group]

command.

Janina

Janina

Jason White writes:

Janina Sajka <janina rednote net> wrote:

I would encourage you to look for solutions without reinstalling. 
If you'd like to say more about your "out of range" error, I'll try 
to help. Did you check in /var/log/messages for more details on 
that message?

If there's a separate log file for X server messages, I would 
suggest looking there as well.

I have never had to re-install a Linux system due to a software problem.

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The manual is at
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The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to
help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp


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Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
                        sip:janina asterisk rednote net
                Email:  janina rednote net

The Linux Foundation
Chair, Open Accessibility:      http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair,  Protocols & Formats     http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
        Indie UI                        http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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