F8 says my video controller sucks.

[Jim Cornette]

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>       Well, I downloaded the F8 live cd, and burned it to a
> cd,everything went fine until it got to my video controller, and then f8
> said it couldn't recognize my video controller. Funny, F7 had no
> problems with it. I don't know about anyone else on this list, but I've
> been seeing this same sort of problem on other machines running other
> distros. Ubuntu 7.10 doesn't like the video controller, and 7.04 didn't
> like the Ethernet or wireless card. Mandriva 2008 also doesn't like the
> video card.

It is important to know which graphics card you are using. From reading 
bits of the thread you seem to have an Integrated Intel graphics and 
NVidia AGP add-on cards.

For anyone to know how to help you the output of /sbin/lspci would show 
your video components. Information from /var/log/xorg.0.log might be 
helpful.

>       What I don't understand is, if you supported a piece of hardware
> in one version, why don't you support it in your new version. I could
> understand it if I was running old hardware, but it's all only about 2
> or 3 years old.

Sometimes upgrades to correct problems with one video component might 
break another type of hardware. I have seen this happen with Ethernet 
and with video components. I hate when things like that happen. I had a 
3COM Ethernet that died after years because of busting the driver. I 
replaced the component because it was never resolved.

For Intel, there are two driver types now. One is the "i810" and the 
other is the "intel"

For NVidia, there is the "nv" and the "nouveau" driver. So if for the 
NVidia you might need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to whatever works 
for your situation.


>     I guess for now I'll keep running F7 on that machine, until I get a
> new video card for it,the other machines, I've changed distros on them.
>    So far, the only distro that I haven't had this problem with
> yet(knock on wood) is Cent OS, but who knows, that may change with
> version 6.
> 
> Jim
> 


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