On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 22:12 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > 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. Well there is no difference between an Opteron and a Athlon 64 besides some cache and the two additional hyper-transport links that most motherboards don't make use of. x86-64 = Opteron & Athlon 64 I keep hearing FUD. Yes I would like to see good open-source drivers, but because of some of the patents involved it's not gonna happen (in the USA anyways). Paul
