nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Jim Martin]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:03 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:23 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
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>>>Greg,
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>>>I've seen this same issue on a Dell Latitude C840 with the new Nvidia
>>>6629 with a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and FC2.  I don't think it's specific
>>>to FC3T*.
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>>>Best,
>>>
>>>Steve
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>>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:59 -0600, Gregory Gulik wrote:
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>>>>Thanks for the info.  The new 6629 nvidia driver works on my Dell 8100 
>>>>notebook, yet DPMS still doesn't work.  It used to work in FC2.
>>>>
>>>>The 6629 driver does NOT work on my Compaq R3000z.   The previous 
>>>>version did work ok but 6629 has a majorly messed up screen upon starting X.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone else having troubles with the NVIDIA driver on an R3000Z??
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>>>>Jim Martin wrote:
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>>>>>I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, 
>>>>>check www.nvidia.com for th update
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>>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
>>>>greg @ gulik.org
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>>well I'm glad you posted this, I have a C840 and was just getting ready
>>to try the nvidia instead of nv, think I'll hold off... thanks.
>>
>>-- 
>>=Guy
>>13:02:33 up 3:50, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.24, 1.12
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>well, I went ahead and did it anyway, the driver works fine, but I have
>to boot to runlevel 3 then startx manually.
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>I would prefer to have my gdm back with my nice gnome login, but if I
>change my runlevel back to 5 then I get no joy, lot's of strange errors.
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>so I can't put runlevel 5 back in inittab...any ideas what I could do to
>get my gdm back with the new drivers? (they are nice btw, all my gl
>stuff is very fast now.)
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>thanks in advance.
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just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, 
and I can use my gdm with no problem.

Jim