Proprietary nvidia driver + 7800 GT PCI express

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:27 -0800, Darrell Esau wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Using the 1975 smp kernel on FC5T3 with the proprietary nvidia driver 
> (installed using the instructions here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg00726.html 
> )
> 
> The nvidia module compiles and installs fine, however when X starts, it 
> runs for a bit, then the screen becomes garbled.  A few seconds later 
> the machine locks up.

did you look at the nvidia forums?
(that's usually a better place to discuss their driver anyway)