On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:31 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a good page with step-by-step instructions for F9 or F10 conversion, so I was vague. Probably this will become less of an issue as those versions are EOL'd anyway.
I hope upgrade from F9/F10 should work automagically.
To be precise, if you have no xorg.conf, F11 will use nouveau automatically, assuming it's installed, which I think it should be (Matej, it was installed by default on previous releases, right - just not *used* by default?) If you have an xorg.conf remaining from a previous release which specifies a particular driver (nvidia or nv), that driver will continue to be used, F11 won't magically override your xorg.conf.
Much more interesting than how to install -{nv,nouveau} is how to get rid of -nvidia goo which stays on the disk (unless rpm from The Repository Which Shall Not Be Named is used, which quite often isn't). Mike Harris my esteemed predecessor in Xorg bug triaging wrote a long piece on this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/3rd_Party_Video_Drivers (which somebody cleaned up recently for English; thank you!).
I'm going to amend that slightly to explain *how* to uninstall proprietary drivers, and try and explain in a roundabout way that it's OK if you use TRWSNBN).