FC5t3 and the nv driver woes

[Mike A. Harris]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> I just built a brand new machine and installed FC5t3.  The nv driver
> will not work on it.
> 
> This is a Giga-Byte GA-K8N Pro-SLI mobo with AMD 64 X2 3800+ dual core
> processor and an eVGA GeForce 6600 PCIe video card.  
> 
> Installing had to be done in text mode because the graphics install was
> not even partly readable (totally unusable). Text mode had a lot of
> artifacts, but I was able to use it because I am familiar with what was
> expected.
> 
> After getting it installed I can boot in text mode and I tried to get X
> working.  The only way I can is with the vesa driver, and that is not at
> maximum resolution.  The max resolution on my monitor is 1600x1200 but
> the best I can get from the vesa driver is 1280x1024.
> 
> If I try to enable the nv driver the screen goes to totally non-readable
> and thus I am presently quite frustrated with this install.
> 
> Where do I file a bug? What do I file it against?  I assume this would
> be against xorg.  Is that correct?  Or would it be the nv driver?
> 		
> So far everything else seems to work well, although I just finished the
> install so have not done a lot of testing as yet.

http://bugs.freedesktop.org "xorg" product, "nVidia (open)" component.

HTH

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