John Thompson wrote:
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.
FC8, nv driver
Here is a working xorg.conf for a Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE, compare
yours with this.
I wouldn't use the Livna "kmod-nvidia" unless you wanting to run 3D apps.
Every time you do a update on the kernel you have to do a kmod-nvidia
update and livna doesn't always have that update
until about a week later.
I use two Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE cards in two different boxes, using
the "nv" driver with much better results.
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
