nvidia GeForce 8600GT video problems

[Chris Mohler]

On 10/29/07, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
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> In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" couldn't.
>   When "david" ran startx, I just get a blank screen until I
> Ctl-Alt-Backspace.

Did you try CTRL-ALT-PLUS or CTRL-ALT-MINUS a few times to cycle
through resolutions? If you just need the card working (but not well)
to get something downloaded/installed (say the nVidia driver), change
the driver in xorg.conf to "vesa" instead of "nv".

I have a GeForce 6800 (Dell OEM) that runs quite well on F7 with the
nVidia driver.  I know some are opposed to a closed-source driver, but
it works much better than the nv driver.  YMMV, etc...

Chris