On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 14:21 +0000, 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. Well, mostly... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249367 > > 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. The proprietary drivers don't work with my laptop card either. The brightness controls apparently don't communicate with the driver correctly and suspend/hibernate/resume results in black screens or lockups. Even the vesa driver doesn't work perfectly. The backlight doesn't go off and suspend doesn't work. The machine won't suspend at all, apperntly due to some interaction with ACPI and the video card. In the past, I have found that Nvidia has been pretty good compared with other manufacturers (especially ATI) about their proprietary drivers. Now that ATI is opening their drivers, I will be seriously considering them in the future. I'm stuck with the laptop for a while, though 8^(. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
