GeForce FX Go 5200 on a Inspiron 8600 running FC3

[Mathew S. Nowend]

Well I followed the link to the thread below and read the whole thing.  I
followed both ways of getting my card to work.  When I rebooted X did start
and I was running at 1920x1200 however when I tried to do anything the
machine locked but I still had mouse control.  So I had to reboot. I was
logged on as a user not as root.  So when I rebooted I logged into X this
time as root and I was at 800x600 resolution.  When I went to check display
settings it brought up the setting options then wouldn't allow me to choose
anything or allow me to do anything just like before so I had to power cycle
the machine.  Any ideas?  :)

Thanks

Mathew




-----Original Message-----
From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:hmerrill123 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:35 AM
To: MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com; For users of Fedora Core releases; Mathew S.
Nowend
Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: Re: GeForce FX Go 5200 on a Inspiron 8600 running FC3

This has been hot topic of conversation for a while -
if you search the archives for "NVidia" you'll see
lots of threads.  There are 2 workarounds that I'm
familiar with - one involves removing "rhgb" from the
kernel line in grub.conf, and the other involves
"udev".

Read this *whole* thread:

  
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg02617.html

I took the "rhgb" approach, but I'm going to try the
"udev" approach myself next.  Right now I have to boot
into runlevel 3 and run "startx" at the command
prompt.

HTH.

Hardy Merrill
--- Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:43 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend
> wrote:
> > I am running a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Ge Force
> 5200 64meg video
> > card.  I downloaded the latest driver from
> Nvidiab