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http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/89
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
BUSID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
You'll have have 'retro' some of the changes we suggested to get your Xfree config close to normal again. If this doesn't fix it, I would make sure you don't have anything else plugged into your video card when running RH configuration utils. You of course got to change the 'nv' thing to whatever per the module instructions.
my screen works fine when using the nv driver, but I want the hardware acceleration I paid for! As it is right now - everything works, except 3d games and programs, which I need (want)
Had the same problem with my nforce2 Epox motherboard using nvidia video card. I had to flash motherboard bios to more recent bios update. Here check out this site and search for garbled screen.
A colleague of mine who does some computer trading in his spare time, has experience of both Windows and Linux boxes. He told me: nVidia drivers work OK with GeForce 2 and GeForce 4MX but avoid Ti and FX.
Obviously no comfort, but I wouldn't mind betting there are loads of you out there who have GeForce Ti and FX cards working just fine... I know that nVidia is a chip manufacturer, and the Vid cards are made by different firms, who may implement the chips in a slightly different way. Remeber nVidia's own drivers for both Windows and Linux, are generic. Is there a list somewhere of cards known to work fine and others that don't? Or even how certain vid cards and motherboards interreact? Maybe all the GeForce card owners can set up a thread on this site to let everyone know...
Please re-read my post again, and change your 'device section' to read the same, except for the 'nv', change that to the nvidia and tell us how it went.
Also, from other posts, the TI's work great. I have one and it took no special magic to get it to work, just installed the nvidia driver, 'followed' the instructions and it worked.
Originally posted by faheyd Also, from other posts, the TI's work great. I have one and it took no special magic to get it to work, just installed the nvidia driver, 'followed' the instructions and it worked.
That is my point. Yours works! I have nvidia on-board GF2 graphics. That works too! But clearly some do not.
nVidia makes chips, which other manufacturers use to make video cards. They are not all the same, just as not all mobos which use KT400 chipsets are the same. Maybe some individual nVidia cards work better than others, even though they may be based around the same chipset, and that's why we get all these posts saying "My one worked" and "My one didn't".
So maybe for example an "Acme FX5600" card works fine but "BrandX FX5600" card does not because there are other differences. If there is a list somewhere, maybe people won't get these problems.
Did you check out the nvnews forum site I posted? alot of people had the garbled srceen problem with a srceen full of weird characters when you try to run the nvidia driver and the nv driver works but no acceleration. The above link will take you to the nvidia graphics linux section then you need to run a search for garbled screen.
funnily enough I do have an Epox motherboard... grrr... so I guess I'll have to flash the BIOS, whatever that is... btw, how do you do that?
and faheyd - I will try using those settings too, mine are very similar...
anyways, I'll do this stuff later, during the week, first I have a big essay to finish for today, and then I think I'm gonna reformat and get Fedora 1, and try fixing with that one, who knows, maybe it'll find my card immediately? :-p
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