nvidia and FC2

[Ben Brown]

What kind of video card do you have?

I have a GeForce 2 MX 400, and while the drivers "work", the minute I
exit X or try and switch to a console (ctrl-alt-F1), the machine
hard-locks.

Worked fine in FC1, so I'm at a loss. Anyone with a similar problem?

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 06:23, Mark M Young wrote:
> NVidia, IMHO, works better with the OS community than
> most major hardware vendors. Do they ALWAYS write
> clean code, no. They are quick to fix any bugs that
> are reported. The caveat to that is you must report it
> or they don't know about it.
> 
> BTW, the stock 5336-pkg1 NVidia driver is working fine
> with my FC2 release. I downloaded the DVD version and
> installed the kernel sources. I have added the
> following to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 	Driver      "nvidia"
> 	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
>        >Option "RenderAccel" "On"
>        >Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP,TV"
>        >Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
>        >Option "HWCursor" "On"
> EndSection
> 
> Of course without the > in front of them ;).
> Everything works fine and MAN is FC2 FAST!
> 
> Later,
> MMYoung
> 
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