On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:25:52AM -0600, Kenny Gow wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: > >I replaced the video card in an AMD64 pc with FC3-x86_64 with > >a new card (nVIDIA GeForce FX5200 replaced by a nVIDIA GeForce > >FX5700 LE) and used kudzu to remove the old adapter and install > >the new. (Kudzu reacted correctly at boot). > >However now 'startx' either remains at the black screen or progresses > >to the blue Gnome startup background (on which normally the Fedora splash > >screen appears with the changing icons before you see the panel, etc.) > >but then no Gnome desktop. > I think that the FC3 nv driver does not support newer nvidia cards. > I have a 5700 Ultra card and the FC3 install put the nv driver into > xorg.conf but it doesn't work--won't start X. So I booted into run > level three to do the post-install configuration. To get X windows > I initially changed from the "nv" driver to the "vesa" driver. But > I quickly installed the nvidia driver to get the full 3D capabilities. > Everything works fine with the nvidia driver. If you read the Xorg.0.log the "nv" driver should support all nVidia cards up to FX5800. I don't like using the "nvidia" driver, too much trouble and I don't need 3D. I think the problem I ran into has to do with a combination of mobo(arch), digital/analog cable, video adapter and "nv" driver. I tried the GeForce FX5700LE (AGP8) in an Intel mobo with AGP4 using the digital cable. To my surprise 'startx' indeed started X using the "nv" driver. But the desktop was unusable because everything was fuzzy. Using the analog cable with this same PC I got a quite good image. On trying the FX5700LE with an analog cable with the MSI AMD64 mobo startx again worked and I got a reasonable, but not perfect image. The "nv" driver worked quite well with a FX5200 in both the Intel and MSI AMD64 mobo PC's using the digital and analog cables. Maybe it has something to do with the video card manufacturars: FX5200 is from AOpen and the FX5700LE from XFX. Alexander
