nvidia

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 06:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> You might have a nvidia video card on your motherboard. There are 
> two choices here. Try to use the nvidia or turn it off and plug in your 
> old known video card. Today I wish I had done the latter because using 
> nvidia with f7 is a pain.

That depends on which card you have.  I've two here that were easy
enough.  One fairly old, one quite new.

>     I really do not see a new Linux user ever getting his/her computer 
> working with nvidia. You need to go to the nvidia web page and get a 
> tarball and install it, not a new person's thing, or you can get 4 rpm 
> files and learn to use --nodeps at the proper time.

No, you don't.  Well, maybe *you* do, but not everybody.  I enabled the
Livna repo (which I use for more than just nvidia), yum installed
kmod-nvidia-something_or_other, and that was virtually it.

Some older cards may be a bit more of a hassle.  Some other cards from
other companies may be a total impossibility.

>     A bug I keep forgetting to file is the following. A really bad 
> problem with nvidia is the missing pointer when X windows boots up. You 
> can do nothing! This is fixed by edit of the /etc/X11/xrog.conf file 
> adding you want to use a software pointer.
> 
>     But this will not work if grub.conf has a kernel directive to use 
> rhxxx which hides the boot up output. While that standard kernel 
> directive exists you can not get a pointer period.
> 
>     This bug makes f7 and I expect f8 useless to a new user with nvidia.

RHGB is not compulsory, and the pointer bug only exists with some cards.
It doesn't with mine.

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