On Monday 21 April 2008 11:20:13 am Donn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Frank Mandato 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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss