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Mathew S. Nowend wrote: | I am running a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Ge Force 5200 64meg video | card. I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia?s website | NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run. I followed the instructions in | their read.me exactly and had no problems with the installation. During | the installation it did ask if I wanted NVIDIA to install a new kernel | and I did select yes. Here is where the problem is I was configuring | xorg.conf as follows: | | | | | | Section "Monitor" | | Identifier "Monitor0" | | VendorName "Monitor Vendor" | | ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200" | | HorizSync 31.5-110 | | VertRefresh 28-90 | | Modeline "1920x1200" 193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 | 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync | | | | # Modeline "1920x1200" 162 1920 1984 2176 2480 1200 1201 1204 | 1250 +hsync +vsync | | Option "dpms" | | EndSection | | | | Section "Device" | | Identifier "Videocard0" | | Driver "nvidia" | | VendorName "Videocard vendor" | | BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" | | Option "NoLogo" "yes" | | EndSection | | | | Section "Screen" | | Identifier "Screen0" | | Device "Videocard0" | | Monitor "Monitor0" | | DefaultDepth 24 | | SubSection "Display" | | Viewport 0 0 | | Depth 24 | | #Modes "1920x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" | "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" | | Modes "1920x1200""1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" | "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" | | EndSubSection | | EndSection | | | | Section "DRI" | | Group 0 | | Mode 0666 | | EndSection | | | | | | | | | | I changed my inittab back to 5. I shutdown ?r now and the system | rebooted. It rebooted normally it checked audio storage network | hardware ok then it said ?configuring kernel parameters? and freezes. | The only thing I can do at that point is power down the machine. | | Any help would greatly be appreciated. | | | | | | Cheers, | | | | Mathew | Hi there, I have a problem similar to yours though with an S3 video card. Please look at my mail under subject <FC3 - wrong screes resolution - A bug?>
There is also a thread with this subject in the fedora-test-list. I have not been able to solve this problem yet.
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