On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 10:45, 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). On one system I have I needed to copy the nvidia drivers to /etc/udev/devices so they would be placed in /dev directory when udev recreates that at boot time. I suspect the problem is that when you reboot those files are not there an your xorg.conf which is referencing them hangs the system trying to start X. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx My cup hath runneth'd over with love.
