nasty problem after install new video card

[Alexander Volovics]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:25:52AM -0600, Kenny Gow wrote:

> Alexander Volovics wrote:
> >I replaced the video card in an AMD64 pc with FC3-x86_64 with
> >a new card (nVIDIA GeForce FX5200 replaced by a nVIDIA GeForce
> >FX5700 LE) and used kudzu to remove the old adapter and install
> >the new. (Kudzu reacted correctly at boot).
> >However now 'startx' either remains at the black screen or progresses
> >to the blue Gnome startup background (on which normally the Fedora splash
> >screen appears with the changing icons before you see the panel, etc.)
> >but then no Gnome desktop.
 
> I think that the FC3 nv driver does not support newer nvidia cards.
> I have a 5700 Ultra card and the FC3 install put the nv driver into
> xorg.conf but it doesn't work--won't start X. So I booted into run
> level three to do the post-install configuration. To get X windows
> I initially changed from the "nv" driver to the "vesa" driver. But
> I quickly installed the nvidia driver to get the full 3D capabilities.
 
> Everything works fine with the nvidia driver.

If you read the Xorg.0.log the "nv" driver should support all nVidia
cards up to FX5800. I don't like using the "nvidia" driver, too much
trouble and I don't need 3D.
 
I think the problem I ran into has to do with a combination of
mobo(arch), digital/analog cable, video adapter and "nv" driver.

I tried the GeForce FX5700LE (AGP8) in an Intel mobo with AGP4 using
the digital cable. To my surprise 'startx' indeed started X using the
"nv" driver. But the desktop was unusable because everything was fuzzy.
Using the analog cable with this same PC I got a quite good image.

On trying the FX5700LE with an analog cable with the MSI AMD64 mobo
startx again worked and I got a reasonable, but not perfect image.

The "nv" driver worked quite well with a FX5200 in both the Intel
and MSI AMD64 mobo PC's using the digital and analog cables.

Maybe it has something to do with the video card manufacturars:
FX5200 is from AOpen and the FX5700LE from XFX.

Alexander