Livna nVidia Drivers on PNY G-Force 6200 (128MB)

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/4/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience getting the Livna nVidia drivers to behave
> on FC6 with the G-Force 6200? Here's my story:
>
> I had an old G-Force 5200FX (128MB/AGP). Attempting to run with the
> current Livna drivers immediately froze the system when X started. The
> only option was a hard reset, rescue CD, update to default at runlevel 3
> and uninstall to return to the opensource driver.
>
> Thinking it may be hardware issues (but also being on a tight budget), I
> replaced the old card with a shiny new PNY G-Force 6200 (128MB/AGP). The
> Livna drivers now no longer freeze the system, but I am only able to run
> at 800x600 resolution, regardless of how I manually adjust display
> settings. Higher resolutions work fine when falling back to the
> opensource driver, but I have constant video repaint issues,
> particularly when typing text. The current Livna beta drivers still
> totally lock the system (with a grey screen at startup).
>
> I've perused (briefly) NVnews and the Livna bugzilla system for hints,
> but thought I would also post here to see if I missed something (which
> is quite possible).

Post your X log.


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