F7 nvidia-96xx driver problem

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 16:12:44 UTC 2007


On 7/24/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D acceleration, so
> (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did
>
> # yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
>
> Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver file,
> installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file that was
> modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me. But, after startx
> all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do is to press the reset
> button.
>
> So, what is going on and how do I fix it? The xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log are
> attached.

X is hanging.  See:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678




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