On Tue, 2005-18-01 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. > > 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. Male bovine feces! nVidia does a good job of providing multidisplay and 3D drivers that work. I have had trouble in the past, but within a short period of time the binary drivers were fixed, and all was well again. I use nVidia because I want dual displays and nVidia makes good dual display AGP cards. The trick Steven needs to perform is before X starts he needs to load the nvidia kernel driver. The way I do is to make a new initrd with a "MODULE=nvidia" option whenever I replace the kernel. I made a shell script that builds the new module and creates the new initrd, but it is on my machine at home.
