<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PROBLEM</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've got a new box, it's got a intel DQ965GF mobo, with 2 SATA disks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(LVM) and came with Fedora 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 running on it. I wanted to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">put my old nVidia geForce fx 5200 (PCI card) into it to allow me to use</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">both my TFTs. However, when I do this it gets to the GRUB menu, starts</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to load a kernel (is that the right phrase) and then falls over. If I</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">leave the card in but tell the BIOS to use the internal graphics it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">boots okay. But when return BIOS to auto detect or explicitly use the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">nVidia card it falls over during boot. I've tried appending</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> acpi=off</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> pci=nommconf</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at the end of the GRUB boot command but with no success. Generally the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">failure messages say (at about the time there's agpgart messages):</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> general protection fault 0000[1] SMP</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">WORKING SOLUTION</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">After much messing about, I've discovered that appending</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>agp=off</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">allows me to boot into runlevel 3 with the nVidia card installed. It therefore appears there's some problem within (Fedora's?) agpgart (?) when nVidia card is chosen.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I then download the nVidia geForce FX 5200 driver from nVidia web site for 64bit machine:</DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_100.14.11.html">http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_100.14.11.html</A></DIV><DIV>& as root, run the downloaded script</DIV><DIV> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">it had to build a module.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">& I let it create a xorg.conf</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Then run 'startx' and it boots into X</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">& menu item: applications->system tools->nVidia X server settings</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">gives user access to various options</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">One also has to amend the GRUB menu.lst so as to do 'agp=off' on future reboots.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Quite straightforward once the culprit (agp) has been identified!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">I hope this is useful to others having problems (hence the rename of subject & x-posting), although I suspect it may be a Fedora kernel issue rather than anything more general</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Michael Bane</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#081DE7" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;">Univ of Manchester, UK</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BODY></HTML>