On 8/1/07, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, I'm new to Fedora so please excuse anything I'm ignorant about! > Having said that, I've been Googling about and trying different things > for a couple of days so I think it's now time to ask the experts (you!). > > I've got a new box, it's got a intel DQ965GF mobo, with 2 SATA disks > (LVM) and came with Fedora 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 running on it. I wanted to > put my old nVidia geForce fx 5200 (PCI card) into it to allow me to use > both my TFTs. However, when I do this it gets to the GRUB menu, starts > to load a kernel (is that the right phrase) and then falls over. If I > leave the card in but tell the BIOS to use the internal graphics it > boots okay. But when return BIOS to auto detect or explicitly use the > nVidia card it falls over during boot. I've tried appending > acpi=off > pci=nommconf > at the end of the GRUB boot command but with no success. Generally the > failure messages say (at about the time there's agpgart messages): > general protection fault 0000[1] SMP > > I'm at a loss as to why it's not working! Most likely the motherboard was never meant to boot with an external graphics card.
