Fedora 8
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Nov 8 19:07:04 UTC 2007
alan wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>>> What is the nature of bug?
>>> X doesn't start? X goes down after a while? garbled display?
>>>
>>>
>> Anaconda found that my computer has a Nvidia VGA hardware and even
>> called it the right model! I was happy and hoped it would carry on
>> but when I rebooted it has the same 800X600 off center x-windows that
>> it had with F7 when it was new. So it seems there has been no work on
>> setting up a new version of Fedora capable of working with Nvidia
>> hardware. That will be my bug.
>
> What model of video card and what model of monitor? (Skewed video is
> sometimes the problem of X getting the wrong data from the monitor.
> Some older monitors gave back totally bjorked DCC data.)
>
The monitor is a 17 inch liquid crystal 5 years old. The Nvidia
hardware is not important. On both F7 and F8 I have to go to the Nvidia
web page and d/l the bash file that works good. Then I run it on now 3
versions of Fedora and it makes the proper kernel module and now the x
window image is 1200x1300 and centered on the screen and many of the
nice Nvidia features work on Linux.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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