Having been disappointed with the on-board Intel 945GM video hardware on my new computer, I found an inexpensive nVidia 6600GT PCI-E board with 512MB ram to replace it. Unfortunately, I cannot get either the "nv" driver or the proprietary nVidia driver to work with it: "no screens found." I used system-config-display to generate a new xorg.conf; no joy. Built the latest proprietary nVidia driver modules to try the proprietary driver; no joy. Plus, the nvideo OpenGL libraries hosed the old Intel libraries so I had to reinstall the Intel driver rpms. The new card works with the "vesa" driver, but only gives me a 60hz refresh rate, which gives me a headache in about 5 minutes. Adding insult to injury, after reinstalling the old Intel drivers, I can no longer get hardware OpenGL support, so everything runs even worse than it did before. Is there a secret to getting the nVidia stuff to work? I'm using Fedora8 x86-64 with kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8. With my old machine, the proprietary modules built and installed fine, but this new machine is being a PITA. -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
