nvidia GeForce 8600GT video problems

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Tue Oct 30 00:36:20 UTC 2007


I just built a computer with a eVGA nvidia GeForce 8600GT video card.  I 
installed F7 x86_64.  Video worked fine, but I ran into lots of other 
problems, so I wiped that out and tried to install F7 i386.

When I loaded Fedora 7 i386, X wouldn't start, but I managed to get over 
to a tty where I changed inittab so the runlevel was 3.  I rebooted and 
did a yum -y update then rebooted again.

In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" couldn't. 
  When "david" ran startx, I just get a blank screen until I
Ctl-Alt-Backspace.

The stdout and stderr from root can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/goodkde_f7_root.eml

The stdout and stderr from david can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/badkde_f7_david.eml

I didn't see any errors in one that weren't in the other, but maybe 
someone else will.  I find it odd that F7 x86_64 had no video problems, 
but i386 did, let alone root working but david didn't.

I might try a reinstall tonight with a lot fewer packages, but I don't 
expect that to fix it.

Perhaps I should find a better-supported video card. I thought this one 
was, but further research (and empirical testing) shows that not to be 
the case.  Can someone recommend a well-supported NVidia PCI-E X16 card 
with a decent amount of memory?  I'm not above throwing money at it, if 
I know the card will work for sure.

Thanks.




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