I just built a computer with a eVGA nvidia GeForce 8600GT video card. I
installed F7 x86_64. Video worked fine, but I ran into lots of other
problems, so I wiped that out and tried to install F7 i386.
When I loaded Fedora 7 i386, X wouldn't start, but I managed to get over
to a tty where I changed inittab so the runlevel was 3. I rebooted and
did a yum -y update then rebooted again.
In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" couldn't.
When "david" ran startx, I just get a blank screen until I
Ctl-Alt-Backspace.
The stdout and stderr from root can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/goodkde_f7_root.eml
The stdout and stderr from david can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/badkde_f7_david.eml
I didn't see any errors in one that weren't in the other, but maybe
someone else will. I find it odd that F7 x86_64 had no video problems,
but i386 did, let alone root working but david didn't.
I might try a reinstall tonight with a lot fewer packages, but I don't
expect that to fix it.
Perhaps I should find a better-supported video card. I thought this one
was, but further research (and empirical testing) shows that not to be
the case. Can someone recommend a well-supported NVidia PCI-E X16 card
with a decent amount of memory? I'm not above throwing money at it, if
I know the card will work for sure.
Thanks.
