radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> I'm on my third video card.
> The first was a radeon.
> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with
> an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it.
> Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one,
> I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650.
> It was the AGP card I could find.
> Knoppix 5.1.0 runs just fine.
> I'm using it now.
> knoppix at Knoppix:~$ uname -a
> Linux Knoppix 2.6.19 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
> knoppix at Knoppix:~$
> Fedora 11, not so great.
> It never gets to X.
> The last messages to the console involve the ethernet connection.

Here is the result of dmesg | tail
> ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> RPC: Registered udp transport module.
> RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
> SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses 
genfs_contexts
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> audit(1275135885.989:15398): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 
subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove rule key=(null) list=4 res=0
> audit(1275135885.989:15399): audit_enabled=0 old=1 auid=4294967295 
ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 res=1
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present

I might have accidentally broken some lines.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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Optimist:   The glass is half full.
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