Problem with NV driver and Fedora 9

[Daniel Auger]

Rodolfo, that did it! Thanks! Unfortunately I have to do this every
time I boot. Is there any way to automate this at boot?

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
<rodolfo.alcazar at padep.org.bo> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 18.05.2008, 12:34 -0500 schrieb Daniel Auger:
>> To work around this, I booted the recovery console and switched the
>> driver in xorg.conf from "nv" to "vesa". The vesa driver allows me to
>> boot into Fedora and go about my business, but it is painfully slow
>> when trying to watch video, so I'd like to get the nv driver working
>> if at all possible.
>
> I had that "out of sync" problem with my nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev a1).
>
> What I did:
>
> - Installed F9.
> - Booted without "rhgb" on the grub kernel line
> - Configured the system (fedora initial configuration)
> - ctrl-alt-f1
> - login as root
> - init 3
> - change xorg.conf, device driver to "nv" (originally detected vesa).
> - # su - rodolfo (thats my daily username)
> - $ startx -- -ignoreABI (started fine)
> - end that gnome session
> - init 5
>
> Now, is working fine. Hope the nvidia driver come soon...
>
> Greetings.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar at padep.org.bo
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