Nvidia MX 4000 card locking up on FC5 as updated

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:31:26PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >
> >Huh? Would you please try that in English?
> >
> >That, plus looking at the config file, gave me a clue, and I tried an
> >experiment. I had:
> >
> >
> >Section "Screen"
> >    Identifier     "Screen0"
> >    Device         "Device0"
> >    Monitor        "Monitor0"
> >    NvAGP          0
> >    NoLogo         0
> >    DefaultDepth    24
> >    SubSection     "Display"
> >        Depth       24
> >        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >    EndSubSection
> >EndSection
> >
> >
> >And that didn't work. I changed it to:
> >
> >
> >Section "Screen"
> >    Identifier     "Screen0"
> >    Device         "Device0"
> >    Monitor        "Monitor0"
> >    Option         "NvAGP" "0"
> >    Option         "NoLogo" "0"
> >    DefaultDepth    24
> >    SubSection     "Display"
> >        Depth       24
> >        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >    EndSubSection
> >EndSection
> >
> >
> >And that worked. Thank you.
> >
> >It would be nice of Nvidia to document it or at least provide some
> >examples. I had no reason to believe that the text in the README was
> 
> In the NVIDIA driver README, I see:
> 
> Option "NvAGP" "integer"
> 
> I'm not sure how much more explicit it could be.

An example from a working file. A clear statement, like "Use the
following form: 'Option "NvAGP" "0"'." A clear statement like "Use
exactly this form, substituting an appropriate integer."

This is not the place to teach technical writing; it suffices to say
that just because it is clear to you does not mean it is clear to
anyone else.

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