On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:57 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Jeff Vian wrote:
> I just built a brand new machine and installed FC5t3. The nv driver
> will not work on it.
>
> This is a Giga-Byte GA-K8N Pro-SLI mobo with AMD 64 X2 3800+ dual core
> processor and an eVGA GeForce 6600 PCIe video card.
>
> Installing had to be done in text mode because the graphics install was
> not even partly readable (totally unusable). Text mode had a lot of
> artifacts, but I was able to use it because I am familiar with what was
> expected.
>
> After getting it installed I can boot in text mode and I tried to get X
> working. The only way I can is with the vesa driver, and that is not at
> maximum resolution. The max resolution on my monitor is 1600x1200 but
> the best I can get from the vesa driver is 1280x1024.
>
> If I try to enable the nv driver the screen goes to totally non-readable
> and thus I am presently quite frustrated with this install.
>
> Where do I file a bug? What do I file it against? I assume this would
> be against xorg. Is that correct? Or would it be the nv driver?
>
> So far everything else seems to work well, although I just finished the
> install so have not done a lot of testing as yet.
http://bugs.freedesktop.org "xorg" product, "nVidia (open)"
component.
HTH
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