very clear-bright colors on the desktop

LarryT guess.who at freesurf.fr
Thu Jun 29 05:23:53 UTC 2006


Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 21:40 +0200, LarryT wrote:
>> Arnout Lok wrote:
>>> On 6/28/06, LarryT <guess.who at freesurf.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dections are good, but colors very clear and bright. On the same pc i
>>>> have fc5, and colors are good :-/
>>>>
>>>> Here is my xorg.conf :
>>>>
>>>> Section "Monitor"
>>>>
>>>>   ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>>>>          Identifier   "Monitor0"
>>>>          VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>>>>          ModelName    "Sony CPD-20SF2T5"
>>>>          DisplaySize  390        290
>>>>   ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>>>>          HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
>>>>          VertRefresh  48.0 - 150.0
>>>>          Option      "dpms"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> Section "Device"
>>>>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>>>          Driver      "nv"
>>>>          VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>>>>          BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x]"
>>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> I had the same with the nv-driver. (even during the graphical
>>> installation) The gamma was set to 2.2. And it couldn't be altered.
>>> After a ' yum update', which got me a new nv-driver, it was resolved.
>>>
>>> Arnout Lok
>>>
>> Thanks Arnout :)
>> I tried to install the dirvers from nVidia 
>> (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8762.html),
>>   but it needs the kernel sources :(
>> Where may i find those sources ? (2.6.16-1.2289_FC6), please ?
> 
> 
> Okay, for starters, Nvidia's drivers don't work with Rawhide (FC6) due
> to changes to the API in Xorg.  New drivers will appear some time soon
> (date unknown) but until then you'll need to use the 'nv' driver
> supplied with Xorg.
> 
> As someone mentioned, when Nvidia do release the new drivers, use
> rpm.livna.org to install these drivers.  Livna's RPMs do some nice
> things to make the drivers play nice and are far easier to use than
> Nvidia's own release.
> 
> There's two things I know that livna nvidia drivers do:
> 
> 1. Handle a file confict with MESA/OpenGL packages where NVidia replaces
> the files, but Livna changes where to look for the files.
> 
> 2. Detect whether the necessary kernel mod for the nvidia driver exists
> and then modifies you're xorg.conf file so that you can still use the nv
> drivers when the nvidia drivers won't work.
> 
> 
> R.
So far i can see, there is no kmod-nvidia for FC6 kernel.
The newer driver seems to be : 
kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.2.6.16_1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm 
25-May-2006 07:58  1.6M
from : http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/i386/

hm ???

-- 
Larry
"Computers are like air conditioners - They stop working properly when 
you open Windows !" :-P




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