Sam Varshavchik wrote:
This is good advice for me as well. i have a dual head nvidia card and used to run it that way with Nvidia's driver under linux. It must have been kernels they liked, because i cannot get it to run now. "nv" is working great, although i'm only on one monitor at the moment (which is fine).Steven Pasternak writes:
I use fedora 3 on an athlon xp and an nvidia geforce fx 5200. I go to install the Nvidia driver version 1.0-6629 and during the installation at the end it says that the license 'Nvidia' taints the kernel, but it still continues and seems to work. If I boot in runlevel 5, though, it gets to the part where it starts X (right at the beginning) and X doesn't start - It freezes. I uninstall the driver and use the 'nv' driver and it works. I have to compile the kernel module because it can't find one at the nvidia site. When I'm in runlevel 3 I can run the accelerated graphics until I shut down, then I have to boot runlevel 3 and recompile the module again. Any advise?
Advice: only use graphics cards that provide and support open source drivers.
Otherwise, the results will be what you have now. Although on this occasion you might be lucky enough to find someone to give you a workaround, sooner or later you'll be boned. Unless, of course, you use precisely the kernel version and build that received the official stamp of approval from NVidia.
i plan to keep this workstation and install for a while, so i'm thinking i will replace the graphics card with one that is more friendly soon. i wonder if nvidia cares that i've only ever purchased their cards, but will now go elsewhere for my graphics card needs.
