nvidia

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 06:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> You might have a nvidia video card on your motherboard. There are 
>> two choices here. Try to use the nvidia or turn it off and plug in your 
>> old known video card. Today I wish I had done the latter because using 
>> nvidia with f7 is a pain.
>>     
>
> That depends on which card you have.  I've two here that were easy
> enough.  One fairly old, one quite new.
>   
    I have one that is VERY HARD. You see if you can get the name of 
your cards. I will look for mine. We can then steer Linux users away 
from mine.


>   
>>     I really do not see a new Linux user ever getting his/her computer 
>> working with nvidia. You need to go to the nvidia web page and get a 
>> tarball and install it, not a new person's thing, or you can get 4 rpm 
>> files and learn to use --nodeps at the proper time.
>>     
>
> No, you don't.  Well, maybe *you* do, but not everybody.  I enabled the
> Livna repo (which I use for more than just nvidia), yum installed
> kmod-nvidia-something_or_other, and that was virtually it.
>
>   
    I do too have Livna eneabled so I can get VLC the best image and 
sound device on Linux. I also have 2 kmod-nvidia... files on my computer 
now.
> Some older cards may be a bit more of a hassle.  Some other cards from
> other companies may be a total impossibility.
>
>   
    We are talking here about a new card on a new motherboard that is a 
nvidia card. It stinks!
>>     A bug I keep forgetting to file is the following. A really bad 
>> problem with nvidia is the missing pointer when X windows boots up. You 
>> can do nothing! This is fixed by edit of the /etc/X11/xrog.conf file 
>> adding you want to use a software pointer.
>>
>>     But this will not work if grub.conf has a kernel directive to use 
>> rhxxx which hides the boot up output. While that standard kernel 
>> directive exists you can not get a pointer period.
>>
>>     This bug makes f7 and I expect f8 useless to a new user with nvidia.
>>     
>
> RHGB is not compulsory, and the pointer bug only exists with some cards.
> It doesn't with mine.
>
>   
    I see, all 10 of your nvidia equipt computers have never shown you a 
missing pointer? Amazing.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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