nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

    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.

    Hoping that the updates would by now have some nvidia help, after 
getting 236 updates last night on my f7-64 bit system it did not fix the 
problem. I used the 4 rpm files from www.atrpms.net which worked but 
maybe not well. I heard from Ric Moore that the tarball is the way to 
go. I will try that on f8.

    A bug I keep forgetting to file is the following. A really bad 
problem with nvidia is the missing pointer when X windows boots up. You 
can do nothing! This is fixed by edit of the /etc/X11/xrog.conf file 
adding you want to use a software pointer.

    But this will not work if grub.conf has a kernel directive to use 
rhxxx which hides the boot up output. While that standard kernel 
directive exists you can not get a pointer period.

    This bug makes f7 and I expect f8 useless to a new user with nvidia.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.