F8 says my video controller sucks.

[Ed Greshko]

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>      The two machines that Unbuntu or Mandriva didn't like the video
> cards in both have Nvidia cards. Both cards have 512mb of video ram on
> them, and are agp 4x. They may not be the most up-to-date cards, but
> they're still current enough that you would think they would work.
> The machine that I've been running fedora on is a Dell Poweredge server
> that's about 3 years old now. The video controller is an intel chip, but
> I don't remember the exact one. I think is was an E7XXXX, or something
> close to that.

You can do "lscpi | grep -i nvidia" to lean exactly what card you have.

>    Anyway, F8 doesn't like the controller in the poweredge server, so
> it's going to take a new video card to get it running f8. I posted what
> I posted just to see if others were having the same or similar problems.
> I didn't think the card specs were that important at the time.

Yes, they are important if you want people to respond with good information.

Ed