any success w/fc4 on these mb's ?
Ray Curtis
ray at ccux.com
Sat Jul 9 14:59:20 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:45 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Saturday 09 July 2005 13:35, Ray Curtis wrote:
> > Just ordered this same setup and should have it in about a week.
> > You mention a trick you had to use to get X to start using the Nvidia
> > driver, could you elaborate more please ?
>
> The problem I have seems to occur only when using dual DVI output.
> When I start my FC4 with the xorg.conf made for the nvidia driver, the machine
> freezes when X is started.
> When I start the machine with an xorg.conf which selects the nv driver, it
> will boot fine.
> After it boots fine, I just copy the xorg.conf made for the nvidia driver into
> place and restart X (brute crtl-alt-backspace). Than it somehow works untill
> my next boot, where I need to repeat the whole thing again.
> This is repeatable and with driver versions 7664 and 7174 (I haven't tried the
> latest nvidia drivers yet, but will soon (perhaps today).
>
> Once in X, I can use the dual screen setup including openGL as expected and it
> runs stable. There's one issue though. I can't switch to any virtual concole
> (crtl-atl-F1) as it will crash the machine.
> I can't find anything obvious is my system logs that point out anything wrong
> so I expect it to be either the nvidia driver or combination FC4 kernel and
> this driver.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel
>
Thanks for the explanation, will check on this after I receive my
system.
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Ray Curtis
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