Proprietary nvidia driver + 7800 GT PCI express

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

Darrell Esau wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Using the 1975 smp kernel on FC5T3 with the proprietary nvidia driver 
> (installed using the instructions here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg00726.html 
> )
>
> The nvidia module compiles and installs fine, however when X starts, 
> it runs for a bit, then the screen becomes garbled.  A few seconds 
> later the machine locks up.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
Make sure you have an up to date livna srpm, containing the latest 
Nvidia patch.
There's a number of issues which were fixed.