Nvidia Problems

[Jason Hayes]

On Monday 21 April 2008 11:20:13 am Donn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Frank Mandato <fgm1147 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >  Hello all,
> >
> >  I have a minor problem with my Nvidia card, its a GEForce6800 and sits
> > in a 64 bit system. Processor is an Intel 2.8Ghz core 2. The current O/S
> > detects it as a dual processor.
> >
> >  The card has 512Mb of Ram on it. It is a PCI Express card and it does
> > work.
> >
> >   Here is the problem.... The only O/S so far that I have found, besides
> > windows, which I no longer have installed at all, where the card will
> > actually work within the X-server is SuSE 10.0 and up. What happens when
> > I start another install the GUI is all scrambled, I have tried it on
> > Solaris, Fedora, Ubuntu and even Sidux. Once Sidux was up and running I
> > was able to edit the xorg.conf file to get any kind of display, and I was
> > unsuccessful in duplicating that with Fedora and Ubuntu as well as
> > Solaris.
> >
> >  I think the default value during the install is set to a depth of 24
> > which just doesn't work without the correct driver from Nvidia.
> >
> >  Even when I installed Suse10.0, now it's 10.3, I have had some minor
> > problems, like no mouse cursor, but I did have a working GUI. After
> > downloading and installing the correct driver, everything works.
> >
> >  I just don't like to be tied down to one O/S and would like to try some
> > others and see if I like them better.
> >
> >  Thanks for any advice that anyone can give me, or where to look for a
> > solution.
> >
> >   FrankM
>
> I have seen this problem on quite a few Distros when using a PCIX video
> card. The simple solution is to set the Video to 'Vesa' when installing,
> then once running, change the Video card configuration and driver. This has
> worked with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandriva, etc.
>
> Hope this helps

Frank:

I have used the 'vesa and then tweak' version of fixing this issue two laptops 
ago.

Basically, I set everything to as generic a setting as I could get it to work 
with and then fiddled afterward. That was with Mandriva 2006 or 2007 and an 
Acer 1705 (with an NVIDIA SiS M650).

-- 
Jason Hayes