nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007 11:35:34 am Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>     
>>> On 28/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>     You might have a nvidia video card on your motherboard. There are
>>>> two choices here. Try to use the nvidia or turn it off and plug in your
>>>> old known video card. Today I wish I had done the latter because using
>>>> nvidia with f7 is a pain.
>>>>
>>>>     I really do not see a new Linux user ever getting his/her computer
>>>> working with nvidia. You need to go to the nvidia web page and get a
>>>> tarball and install it, not a new person's thing, or you can get 4 rpm
>>>> files and learn to use --nodeps at the proper time.
>>>>         
>>> Firstly, Fedora will work out of the box with nvidia cards using the
>>> free/OSS drivers. They may not yet properly support 3D, but they do
>>> work and give you a graphical interface.
>>>
>>> At that point, if you do want the extra 3D glits, installing the
>>> proprietory NVidia drivers is as trivial as this:
>>>
>>> As root:
>>> 1) rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
>>> 2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
>>> 3) yum install kmod-nvidia
>>>
>>> That is ALL there is to it. You're making your life overly difficult.
>>>       
>>     With those supplied with F7 my computer would not show a full screen
>> but one offset by about 70 degrees. And out of the box it has no pointer
>> on X windows. What is my computer?
>>
>>     Well it is a SY-P4VGM v1.0  motherboard which has a nvidia video
>> card undefined in the small book they provide. A CD-Rom is included and
>> I will look at that. That is a SOYO motherboard at www,soyousa.com and I
>> will look for the nvidio name there.
>>
>>     
>
> Karl:
> According to the Soyo site, your motherboard has an onboard Prosavage graphics 
> chip (http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?t=d&id=292), and uses a 
> VIA chipset. Nothing there about nVidia, so I assume that the nVidia card is 
> an add-on. Is it possible that there is a conflict between the onboard chip 
> and the nVidia card? In particular, has the onboard device been disabled in 
> the BIOS?
>
> -- cmg (who is very wary on on-board stuff)
>
>   
    Good information. My book says nothing about VGA except to say it's 
there. On the companion CD-Rom I found that the drivers are via-km400 
which do sound like prosavage which is well known to Linux.

    But for the fact that I get good video ONLY when nvidia software is 
correct and in place. So there must be some hardware somewhere also on 
the motherboard.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.