On Sunday 28 October 2007 11:35:34 am Karl Larsen wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > On 28/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > >> > >> 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. > > > > Firstly, Fedora will work out of the box with nvidia cards using the > > free/OSS drivers. They may not yet properly support 3D, but they do > > work and give you a graphical interface. > > > > At that point, if you do want the extra 3D glits, installing the > > proprietory NVidia drivers is as trivial as this: > > > > As root: > > 1) rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm > > 2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna > > 3) yum install kmod-nvidia > > > > That is ALL there is to it. You're making your life overly difficult. > > With those supplied with F7 my computer would not show a full screen > but one offset by about 70 degrees. And out of the box it has no pointer > on X windows. What is my computer? > > Well it is a SY-P4VGM v1.0 motherboard which has a nvidia video > card undefined in the small book they provide. A CD-Rom is included and > I will look at that. That is a SOYO motherboard at www,soyousa.com and I > will look for the nvidio name there. > Karl: According to the Soyo site, your motherboard has an onboard Prosavage graphics chip (http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?t=d&id=292), and uses a VIA chipset. Nothing there about nVidia, so I assume that the nVidia card is an add-on. Is it possible that there is a conflict between the onboard chip and the nVidia card? In particular, has the onboard device been disabled in the BIOS? -- cmg (who is very wary on on-board stuff)
