On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 00:20 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Sam Varshavchik 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. > > > > There are many graphics cards with reliable, open source, native x.org > > drivers. I suggest that you pick one, and support the vendors that > > support open source. > > Out of curiousity, such as? If you need accelerated 3D ... a few Radeon R1x0 & R200 based cards, ATI Rage 128, Some Intel Integrated Graphics and a few others. Check here http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Status Paul
