NVidia 6600GT video failure

[Jim]

John Thompson wrote:
> Having been disappointed with the on-board Intel 945GM video hardware on 
> my new computer, I found an inexpensive nVidia 6600GT PCI-E board with 
> 512MB ram to replace it. Unfortunately, I cannot get either the "nv" 
> driver or the proprietary nVidia driver to work with it: "no screens 
> found."
>
> I used system-config-display to generate a new xorg.conf; no joy.
>
> Built the latest proprietary nVidia driver modules to try the 
> proprietary driver; no joy. Plus, the nvideo OpenGL libraries hosed the 
> old Intel libraries so I had to reinstall the Intel driver rpms. 
>
> The new card works with the "vesa" driver, but only gives me a 60hz 
> refresh rate, which gives me a headache in about 5 minutes. 
>
> Adding insult to injury, after reinstalling the old Intel drivers, I can 
> no longer get hardware OpenGL support, so everything runs even worse 
> than it did before.
>
> Is there a secret to getting the nVidia stuff to work? I'm using 
> Fedora8 x86-64 with kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8. With my old machine, the 
> proprietary modules built and installed fine, but this new machine is 
> being a PITA.
>
>   
FC8, nv driver
Here is a working xorg.conf for a   Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE, compare 
yours with this.
I wouldn't use the Livna "kmod-nvidia" unless you wanting to run 3D apps.
Every time you do a update on the kernel you have to do a kmod-nvidia 
update and livna  doesn't always have that update
until about a week later.
I use two  Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE  cards in two different boxes, using 
the "nv" driver with much better results.
 
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
    HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
    VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0
    Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection