Nvidia Problems

[Technomage-hawke]

On Monday 21 April 2008, 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
>
>
hmmmm. wierd.
I have exactly the same card and installed it under kubuntu 7.04 (now 
upgraded) and had very little trouble with it.

Also, I used the "restricted drivers" download option to setup the card 
properly.