<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>This is for all of the nVidia proponents out there that are having trouble getting FC pre 6 installed with all the eye candy. This install was done using the DVD iso. It was a chore getting this to run as designed but it was well worth the effort. It's a bit long<br><br>1. Boot from DVD (naturally when you have a DVD from iso)<br>2. Choose the defaults for your keyboard, language and timezone.........<br>3. For the partitioning of the drive I left it with the defaults chosen. ( couldn't change anythingthing other wise it would error at trying to create a new partition, will try this again later to see if it was a hardware problem or if it was something to do with LVM).<br>4. Choose what you want to install and continue. (I know I skipped the network stuff and others as well but keeping in mind I am just using
defaulta here. Later I will change a few things).<br>5.Finished the install. Remove DVD from drive and let it reboot.<br>6.On the First Boot screen, everything is shifted to the right so I can't see the next button. Then remembered in the mailing list about removing the rhgb from grub.<br>7. Removed rhgb from grub and booted to First Boot screens and chose what I needed. Continuing<br>8. Enter user name and password at the login screen.<br>9.1600x1200 resolution, Not good, beyond my monitors range, but still viewable. Downloading latest beta from nVidia's website. (following the readme, I went to the next step)<br>10. Installed driver and dependancies. (running the installer for the first time I found that I was missing a few. Using yum I installed them, gcc and others. Finished the driver install.) Let the installer run the nVidia xconfigurator.<br>11.Reboot computer and login. 1280x1024, very good. Tried to get Desktop Effects ot run (Preferences>More
Prefereces>Desktop Effects) failed.<br><br>Below you will see what my xorg.conf had to be for the Effects to work:<br><br># nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig<br># nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Sep 14 15:50:24 PDT 2006<br><br># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display<br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "single head configuration"<br> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Files"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Module"<br> Load "dbe"<br> Load
"extmod"<br> Load "fbdevhw"<br> Load "glx"<br> Load "record"<br> Load "freetype"<br> Load "type1"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> # generated from default<br> Identifier "Mouse0"<br> Driver "mouse"<br> Option "Protocol" "auto"<br> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"<br> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Keyboard0"<br> Driver "kbd"<br> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br> Option "XkbLayout" "us"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br><br> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:<br> Identifier "Monitor0"<br> ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V"<br> HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0<br> VertRefresh 56.0 -
75.0<br> Option "dpms"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "Videocard0"<br> Driver "nvidia"<br> VendorName "Videocard vendor"<br> BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Screen0"<br> Device "Videocard0"<br> Monitor "Monitor0"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 24<br> Modes "1280x1024"<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br><br>Voila, the Desktop Effects works, for me anyways (luckily I had a copy of my FC 5 xorg.conf handy. Compare the differences between FC 5 and FC pre 6 ).<br>There are many other issues with FC pre6. The hosts file has the loopback IP as ::1 when it should be 127.0.0.1 when using ipv4. The xorg nv driver does not recognize the proper resolution for the monitor( or maybe hal). The terminal window is just a white square. There are others as well. Glad to see you are delaying the release of FC6.<br><br>Ta Ta<br>Mike<br></div></div></body></html>