On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:10 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > 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. > Look I am no expert either, but it the freezing is probably just the > agpgart and is easy to work around. > > in the driver section of the xoerg.conf just add a line > Option "NvAGP" "1" > > see the nvidia's README near the bottom of the doc. Also, in terms of the need to re-compile at each boot, see the following: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ and look towards the bottom of the page for the nVidia instructions. HTH, Marc Schwartz
