On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 06:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > You might have a nvidia video card on your motherboard. There are > two choices here. Try to use the nvidia or turn it off and plug in your > old known video card. Today I wish I had done the latter because using > nvidia with f7 is a pain. That depends on which card you have. I've two here that were easy enough. One fairly old, one quite new. > I really do not see a new Linux user ever getting his/her computer > working with nvidia. You need to go to the nvidia web page and get a > tarball and install it, not a new person's thing, or you can get 4 rpm > files and learn to use --nodeps at the proper time. No, you don't. Well, maybe *you* do, but not everybody. I enabled the Livna repo (which I use for more than just nvidia), yum installed kmod-nvidia-something_or_other, and that was virtually it. Some older cards may be a bit more of a hassle. Some other cards from other companies may be a total impossibility. > A bug I keep forgetting to file is the following. A really bad > problem with nvidia is the missing pointer when X windows boots up. You > can do nothing! This is fixed by edit of the /etc/X11/xrog.conf file > adding you want to use a software pointer. > > But this will not work if grub.conf has a kernel directive to use > rhxxx which hides the boot up output. While that standard kernel > directive exists you can not get a pointer period. > > This bug makes f7 and I expect f8 useless to a new user with nvidia. RHGB is not compulsory, and the pointer bug only exists with some cards. It doesn't with mine. -- Using FC 4 - 7, CentOS 5, plus Ubuntu. For the moment, it's Ubuntu. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
