Jonathan Berry writes:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:37:42 -0500, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Michael Cobb writes: > Steven, > > I have the same problem on a Opteron based FC-2 box with an Nvidia FX-500 > card. I set runlevel 3, execute startx, and look at a blank screen. I have > been working on this problem for 2 weeks. So far no love from fedora!
Good luck getting NVidia working on an Opteron. Their closed source driver is 32-bit only. It won't be easy to shoehorn it into a 64bit kernel. Even if it's possible at all.
Whoa! This is false. I have an Athlon 64 and nVidia's drivers work just fine. Please get your facts right before posting.
The only Fedora 64bit kernel I'm aware of is the Opteron kernel. There is no athlon64-specific kernel either in the i386 Fedora build, or the x86_64 Fedora build.
If you are booting the 32-bit i686 kernel, you are running in 32bit mode.
Yes, you have a much better chance of getting the 32bit Nvidia drivers running under your 32bit kernel.
The previous poster, though, is booting the Opteron kernel. He's in a very different pickle. And if you are indeed booting the x86_64 build of Fedora, I'm sure he'll appreciate the exact details of what you did to get Nvidia's albatross off the ground.
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