On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Frank Mandato <
fgm1147@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
--
Donn
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
-- Dave Barry
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