Hi, total newbie at Linux here. I'm running FC2, and trying to install a video card with TV out (I eventually hope to get this box running MythTV). I've seen some stuff on the boards that seems to indicate that FC2 and Nvidia have some "issues", but it's not clear to me what they are. I did try to boot into Knoppix with the card installed, and that worked. I figured I would just try a fresh install from scratch of FC2, since I have no data I care about on the system, but that didn't work. FC2 refuses to recognize the PCI video card and just goes for the onboard video.

Is there something I can do to get FC2 to recognize the card, and then configure it? If FC2 is the problem here, I guess I could try an install from scratch with Mandrake...but I guess there have to be better solutions than that.

Thanks for any help.

Have you installed the Nvidia drivers yet? If you have you may want to look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) files to see what changes need to be made for the TV out.

I have never used the TV out but I think you have to install the drivers before they will work at all for the TV out portion. After that, search www.google.com/linux for you model and 'xf86config'. That will give you examples of what the file should look like. You can search here to, that may help.

Of course, someone that has that card may come along and post his/her XF86Config file too.

Hope that helps. google for linux is a god send. Try it. It works.

Thanks for the reply. First I had to get the BIOS to use the card, that was the first problem. Then once I got all that squared away, I was able to edit the config file as posted here. "Gears" shows me with thousands of frames per second, and Tux Racer looks great, so I'm 3D now! Thanks.

Enough said.