Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:52 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:53 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> > > I just realized that I have to download a driver to nvidia card
> > > specially for Linux!!!
> > 
> > Just FYI, that sort of thing *may* or may not be necessary.  Fedora
> > already comes with a driver for many NVidia graphics chipsets, but you
> > may have a card that it won't work with, and you may need the closed
> > binary NVidia driver maintained by NVidia, themselves.  Which, as far as
> > I thought, is maintained more often.
> 
> nv is the weenie version. It sucks. It's there and serves some purpose,
> but the real deal is vastly better. 
> 
> > 
> > There are some problems with using the NVidia driver, it's a closed
> > binary, and you're up a creek without a paddle if it interacts badly
> > with your system.  I don't use it on two of my PCs, one because their
> > driver is worse (on that PC) than the one that came with Fedora, the
> 
> I'm running an older 5200 card and the nVidia driver works a charm.
> ESPECIALLY if you intend to do 3D graphics. There is no problem if it
> works for you. If I could only use the Fedora supplied nV drivers, it
> would be better to put a hammer through the CRT and place burning coals
> in it for the view and Hotdog roasting, as far as functionality is
> concerned. 
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as far as I remember, the OP is trying to install Fedora 9 and I don't
believe that Nvidia has released legacy or 9600 drivers that will work
with F9's xorg

Craig