Re: any success w/fc4 on these mb's ?

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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


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