nvidia and FC2

Darrell Esau Darrell.Esau at Sun.COM
Thu May 20 21:49:36 UTC 2004


Thanks for this Mark --

This is quite odd -- I added the 4 lines below to my xorg.conf/XF86Config 
file, and it works!

I can't say I understand it, but it works.  

I'm using the stock installed kernel from FC2:
# uname -a
Linux blah.here 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 
GNU/Linux

I'm using the latest NVIDIA driver (5336), in dual-head Xinerama (TwinView).

However, GLX does NOT work -- running glxinfo will result in a hard freeze.

Other than that, it seems to be pretty stable so far.

-d

On Thursday 20 May 2004 5:23 am, 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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