Hi!

This is yet another request with some help for getting the nvidia driver working. I'd even settle getting NV working. When I try to use either the NV or NVidia driver, the display is unusable. I have seen several symptoms. The most common is that the display looks like it is compressed into the top 1 inch of the screen. The rest of the screen is filled with alternating white and black bars. These bars appear to have some significant "static" in them. The top 1 inch is interesting it looks like the screen is being displayed 4 to 6 times with alternating bands of screen image and "void" lines. Now, I have been bashing my head against this for about a week. So, I will try to give some relevant facts and observations.

System specs:

Intel Core 2 duo processor
SATA HD
1 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 7300 GT
IDE DVD/CD
500 W power supply
LCD (Cheap Hanns-G HW191A)

I am using the Fedora 7 64 bit distro.

Still with me? Good,I have a few observations:
1) I started with the Fedora Core 6 distro. I was able to get it working breifly. Then, I blindly accepted an update. That was when things went horribly WRONG. So, I think that the HW is O.K.
2) The vesa driver sort of works. It draws the screen. But, I have these light blue fragments in neat columns down the display. It sort of reminds me of the matrix. Then again, I might have slipped into an alternate reality.
3) I have tried both the Fedora 7 64 bit and 32 bit installations. Neither graphic installation works. So, I have been installing in text mode and performing the additional steps in mode 3.
3) I HAVE turned off SELinux.
4) I have been installing the livna versions of the nvidia driver.
5) At one point, I almost got the nvidia driver to work while I was fiddling around with the xorg.conf file. Alas, I made a change with saving the settings that almost worked. So, I will never know what they were. I suspect that I had disabled composite video.
6) One forum recommended trying the other port if you had problems. This Nvidia card has one analog and one digital port. I saw no difference between using either one.
7) For the brief time that it was working, I noticed that the monitor was NOT recognized in the "Display" panel.
8) I tried an old S3 Savage4 card. It worked well at 800X600. (A video setting that was COOL about 1989.) Unfortunately, I prefer a higher resolution.

9)I am currently using the vesa driver. But, when I try to set the init level to 5, the screen was unusable. It looked like the memory map was a little off. It looked like someone took the screen, cut it up with scissors, four times vertically, and many times horizontally. Then, they reassembled it wrong. The net effect was that moving the mouse caused parts of the mouse to appear at 4 or more places on the screen.

Some of the forums like to see the xorg.conf file. Mine is boring. I am aware that it shows the vesa driver. But, when I replace vesa with either nv or nvidia, the display is unusable. Here it is:
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# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

At this point, I am seriously contemplating throwing the board out the window and backing over it with the car (or my neighbors truck). But, ultimately, that won't solve the problem. It will just make me feel good about buying a new card.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Maybe this thread will help: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...39#post2807139

When you tried Fedora, did you try the nvidia drivers from the livna repository? (http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/) It's sort of a repository for Fedora that supplies stuff that Fedora, for one reason or another, can't include in it's distro (like MP3 decoders/encoders). I've had very good luck with the driver from there. It's the nvidia proprietary driver packaged for Fedora.

Thanks for the input. In number 4, I stated that I HAVE been trying the livna version of the nvidia driver. I don't think that I'm running compiz or beryl. (unless they are part of the default distribution.) In thinking back over the last month, I may have tried using the rpm's from the Nvidia site. But, since I am on my 5th (or is it 6th) installation, I am pretty much certain that installation is long gone from my system.