nForce2 unified drivers and Fedora Core 2 (and a bit ATI Radeon 9600XT)

Doug Maurer doug at dmaurer.net
Mon Jul 26 18:34:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 21:25 +0200, Thomas Bitschnau wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I tried to install the driver for my ATI Radeon 9600XT. That seems to
> have worked, but I still don't have any 3D-acceleration. I think the
> problem is the missing support for the AGP-Port.
> Therefore I tried to install the nForce2-drivers (the board is an "Asus
> A7N8X Deluxe") from nVidia. And thats the point I actually hang.
> I got the sources and tried to compile them, which ends in a whole lot
> of errors. A little research lead me to the point, that those drivers
> cannot be installed in combination with a 2.6-Kernel.
> 
> Is there any workaround for this? Anyone having an idea how I get my
> graphics card to work? For a xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log output look here:
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=87129&postcount=167
> 
> Anyone knows if it is possible to install the nVidia nForce-drivers
> V1.0-0274 in combination with a 2.6-kernel?
> 


I have a nvidia chipset board running 2.6.5-1.358, and everything works
fine on it, including the on-board nvidia video.. But I did run into a
problem where the nic wouldn't work after trying to update the kernel.
So I've back down to 358 and everything else gets updated.





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