Nvidia MX 4000 & Nvidia drivers

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:02:25PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:59:54PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > >> On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > >> >I have an Nvidia MX 4000 video card. X comes up far enough to give me
> > >> >a blue screen and a mouse pointer. The FC5 system worked fine before I
> > >> >installed the two nvidia modules:
> > >> >
> > >
> > >> What does your X log look like?
> > >
> > >See below.
> > >
> > >> How are you starting X?
> > >
> > >Run level 3, log in as a user, then "startx".
> >
> > What if you switch to runlevel 5 instead?
>
> GAggghhhh!
>
> I get the same thing even before GDM comes up. I can SSH in, but the
> response is slow. top indicates that a process called Xorg is eating
> the CPU with 99+% CPU usage. I had maybe a minute, then it locked up.
>
> Having edited /etc/inittab to change the run level, I then tried to
> reboot by appending "init 3" to the linux command line in grub. No go;
> the system could not transition from the initrd to the hard drive. I
> finally booted to tomsrtbt and changed inittab back. That worked; I am
> now in run level 3.
>
> > Is more than one user getting this blue screen when running startx?
>
> I have no other users (other than root). I have not tried it as root,
> except as above.
>
> Everything was working fine until I installed the two nvidia rpms.

What kind of motherboard are you using?
Have you verified that you're using the latest BIOS?


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