nVidia vs FC2 Revisited

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:34:59AM -0400, Greg Swallow wrote:
> Still have the latest kernel (2.6.6-1.435-2.3) and latest nVidia driver
> (6106) loaded. Still have the square of video garbage pointer; some menu
> item do no come up until move pointer over them as well. May've not
> mentioned this before.
> 
> New information that the motherboards (2) are GemLight/DTK
> P6IDK/PRM00771,
> 
> http://www.life-adventure.com/computers/product/gemlidk.htm,
> 
> with that last DTK BIOS loaded to support larger hard drives and faster
> CPU speeds. Am using 2x iPII 266MHz each, 256mb RAM, Apollo Bloody
> Monster 3 nVidia FX 5200 128mb video, SB Live! v5.1, and NIC(s).
> ya-da-ya-da-ya-da.
> 
> This information is also at the nVidia list for FC/Linux so don't pawn
> me off to them. The only warning/error I have is the bit about rivafb.
> All I want to try is to rebuild my kernel without the rivafb and/or with
> the vesafb. Not really using fb on these machines.
> 
> Does anyone have a good "How To" step-by-step to get this accomplished?
> 
How about changing your approach using the rpms at:
 http://ATrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics/
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