nvidia

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 11:35:34 am Karl Larsen wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > On 28/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> 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.
> >>
> >>     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.
> >
> > Firstly, Fedora will work out of the box with nvidia cards using the
> > free/OSS drivers. They may not yet properly support 3D, but they do
> > work and give you a graphical interface.
> >
> > At that point, if you do want the extra 3D glits, installing the
> > proprietory NVidia drivers is as trivial as this:
> >
> > As root:
> > 1) rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
> > 2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
> > 3) yum install kmod-nvidia
> >
> > That is ALL there is to it. You're making your life overly difficult.
>
>     With those supplied with F7 my computer would not show a full screen
> but one offset by about 70 degrees. And out of the box it has no pointer
> on X windows. What is my computer?
>
>     Well it is a SY-P4VGM v1.0  motherboard which has a nvidia video
> card undefined in the small book they provide. A CD-Rom is included and
> I will look at that. That is a SOYO motherboard at www,soyousa.com and I
> will look for the nvidio name there.
>

Karl:
According to the Soyo site, your motherboard has an onboard Prosavage graphics 
chip (http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?t=d&id=292), and uses a 
VIA chipset. Nothing there about nVidia, so I assume that the nVidia card is 
an add-on. Is it possible that there is a conflict between the onboard chip 
and the nVidia card? In particular, has the onboard device been disabled in 
the BIOS?

-- cmg (who is very wary on on-board stuff)