GeForce FX Go 5200 on a Inspiron 8600 running FC3
RoboticGolem
roboticgolem at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 16:35:11 UTC 2004
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:43:08 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend
<mathewnowend at swfla.rr.com> wrote:
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> I am running a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Ge Force 5200 64meg video card. I
> downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia's website
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run. I followed the instructions in their
> read.me exactly and had no problems with the installation. During the
> installation it did ask if I wanted NVIDIA to install a new kernel and I did
> select yes. Here is where the problem is I was configuring xorg.conf as
> follows:
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> Section "Monitor"
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> Identifier "Monitor0"
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> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
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> ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
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> HorizSync 31.5-110
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> VertRefresh 28-90
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> Modeline "1920x1200" 193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204
> 1242 -HSync +Vsync
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> # Modeline "1920x1200" 162 1920 1984 2176 2480 1200 1201 1204 1250
> +hsync +vsync
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> Option "dpms"
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> EndSection
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> Section "Device"
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> Identifier "Videocard0"
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> Driver "nvidia"
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> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
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> BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
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> Option "NoLogo" "yes"
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> EndSection
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> Section "Screen"
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> Identifier "Screen0"
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> Device "Videocard0"
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> Monitor "Monitor0"
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> DefaultDepth 24
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> SubSection "Display"
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> Viewport 0 0
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> Depth 24
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> #Modes "1920x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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> Modes "1920x1200""1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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> EndSubSection
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> EndSection
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> Section "DRI"
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> Group 0
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> Mode 0666
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> EndSection
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> I changed my inittab back to 5. I shutdown –r now and the system rebooted.
> It rebooted normally it checked audio storage network hardware ok then it
> said "configuring kernel parameters" and freezes. The only thing I can do
> at that point is power down the machine.
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> Any help would greatly be appreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Mathew
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I had this problem on a differnet nvidia card... all I had to do is
remove the rhgb from the kernel params and it fixed it. I saw the
post about it a while back. Thanks again to whoever posted the
solution.
-Matt
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