On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:45 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2005 13:35, Ray Curtis wrote: > > Just ordered this same setup and should have it in about a week. > > You mention a trick you had to use to get X to start using the Nvidia > > driver, could you elaborate more please ? > > The problem I have seems to occur only when using dual DVI output. > When I start my FC4 with the xorg.conf made for the nvidia driver, the machine > freezes when X is started. > When I start the machine with an xorg.conf which selects the nv driver, it > will boot fine. > After it boots fine, I just copy the xorg.conf made for the nvidia driver into > place and restart X (brute crtl-alt-backspace). Than it somehow works untill > my next boot, where I need to repeat the whole thing again. > This is repeatable and with driver versions 7664 and 7174 (I haven't tried the > latest nvidia drivers yet, but will soon (perhaps today). > > Once in X, I can use the dual screen setup including openGL as expected and it > runs stable. There's one issue though. I can't switch to any virtual concole > (crtl-atl-F1) as it will crash the machine. > I can't find anything obvious is my system logs that point out anything wrong > so I expect it to be either the nvidia driver or combination FC4 kernel and > this driver. > > Regards, > Marcel > Thanks for the explanation, will check on this after I receive my system. -- Ray Curtis
