nvidia GeForce 8600GT video problems

[Karl Larsen]

David Kramer wrote:
> I just built a computer with a eVGA nvidia GeForce 8600GT video card.  
> I installed F7 x86_64.  Video worked fine, but I ran into lots of 
> other problems, so I wiped that out and tried to install F7 i386.
>
> When I loaded Fedora 7 i386, X wouldn't start, but I managed to get 
> over to a tty where I changed inittab so the runlevel was 3.  I 
> rebooted and did a yum -y update then rebooted again.
>
> In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" 
> couldn't.  When "david" ran startx, I just get a blank screen until I
> Ctl-Alt-Backspace.
>
> The stdout and stderr from root can be seen at
> http://thekramers.net/tmp/goodkde_f7_root.eml
>
> The stdout and stderr from david can be seen at
> http://thekramers.net/tmp/badkde_f7_david.eml
>
> I didn't see any errors in one that weren't in the other, but maybe 
> someone else will.  I find it odd that F7 x86_64 had no video 
> problems, but i386 did, let alone root working but david didn't.
>
> I might try a reinstall tonight with a lot fewer packages, but I don't 
> expect that to fix it.
>
> Perhaps I should find a better-supported video card. I thought this 
> one was, but further research (and empirical testing) shows that not 
> to be the case.  Can someone recommend a well-supported NVidia PCI-E 
> X16 card with a decent amount of memory?  I'm not above throwing money 
> at it, if I know the card will work for sure.
>
> Thanks.
>
    You need to go to the Nvidia web page and click on downloads and 
then linux and then make the selection on the panel and then d/l the 
file. It looks like:

NAVIDIA-Linux-x86...

This works just fine on my F7.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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