[PLUG] Strangely frozen desktop

[Bill Barry]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:41 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2013 20:53:03 -0700
> Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:
>
> >On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, John Jason Jordan
> ><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
> >
> >> that I can't diagnose. Any suggestions?
>
> >The proprietary Nvidia drivers work well enough.
>
> I once installed the nVidia drivers on a Fedora computer and later
> uninstalled them. Afterward nouveau drivers would not work because the
> nVidia drivers had hopelessly garbled a bunch of links. After hours of
> googling I finally got the nouveau drivers back, but never did get the
> nice Fedora teardrop splash screen back.
>
> If I ever have to install the proprietary nVidia drivers to get a
> computer to work, I'll get a different computer.
>

Look for one with an Intel Video chipset. Those should work nicely.

Bill