Xorg-x11 & Pci-E Video Cards

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:55 +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> On 6/22/05, Paul De Audney <paul at messinthecorner.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > Are there any current known problems with the Xorg version shipped in
> > FC4 and PCI-E video cards?
> > I am attempting to use FC4 on a AMD64 based pc with a Geforce 6600GT
> > PCI-E video card. When x loads up all I am seeing is lots of
> > artifaction, and lines of varying colour.
> > 
> > I have not been able to find any reports in bugzilla.
> > I have not filed one as yet, as I have not looked into to it too much.
> > 
> > Are any other people out there having the same issues as me?
> 
> The 6600 is not listed in the supported hardware section of the nv
> driver man page...
> I also didn't get it to work using the nv driver. The binary nvidia
> driver seems to be the only option right now.
> 

The 6600 definitely works with FC4. I am using a 6600GT on Intel E64MT
(x86_64). I have not tried the Nvidia binary yet.

>From Xorg.0.log:

(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
        Unknown TNT2, Vanta, RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64,
        Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 

	<snip>
 
        GeForce Go 6600, 0x0149, 0x014B, 0x014C, 0x014D, Quadro FX 540,
        GeForce 6200, 0x0160, GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM), 0x0162,
0x0163,
        GeForce Go 6200, 0x0163, GeForce Go 6250, GeForce Go 6200,
        GeForce Go 6250, 0x0169, 0x016B, 0x016C, 0x016D, 0x016E, 0x0210,
        GeForce 6800, GeForce 6800 LE, GeForce 6800 GT, 0x0220, 0x0221,
        0x0222, 0x0228


Jurgen

> Klaasjan
>