On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:07 -0500, Jim Martin wrote: > W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:03 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > > > > >>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:23 -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Greg, > >>> > >>>I've seen this same issue on a Dell Latitude C840 with the new Nvidia > >>>6629 with a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and FC2. I don't think it's specific > >>>to FC3T*. > >>> > >>>Best, > >>> > >>>Steve > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:59 -0600, Gregory Gulik wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Thanks for the info. The new 6629 nvidia driver works on my Dell 8100 > >>>>notebook, yet DPMS still doesn't work. It used to work in FC2. > >>>> > >>>>The 6629 driver does NOT work on my Compaq R3000z. The previous > >>>>version did work ok but 6629 has a majorly messed up screen upon starting X. > >>>> > >>>>Anyone else having troubles with the NVIDIA driver on an R3000Z?? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Jim Martin wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, > >>>>>check www.nvidia.com for th update > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ > >>>>greg @ gulik.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>>-- > >>>fedora-test-list mailing list > >>>fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>To unsubscribe: > >>>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > >>> > >>> > >>well I'm glad you posted this, I have a C840 and was just getting ready > >>to try the nvidia instead of nv, think I'll hold off... thanks. > >> > >>-- > >>=Guy > >>13:02:33 up 3:50, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.24, 1.12 > >> > >> > >> > > > >well, I went ahead and did it anyway, the driver works fine, but I have > >to boot to runlevel 3 then startx manually. > > > >I would prefer to have my gdm back with my nice gnome login, but if I > >change my runlevel back to 5 then I get no joy, lot's of strange errors. > > > >so I can't put runlevel 5 back in inittab...any ideas what I could do to > >get my gdm back with the new drivers? (they are nice btw, all my gl > >stuff is very fast now.) > > > >thanks in advance. > > > > > > > just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, > and I can use my gdm with no problem. > > Jim > no I didn't! and yes it's there. if I remove that from grub then can I also change inittab back to runlevel 5? -- =Guy 22:15:38 up 55 min, 2 users, load average: 0.93, 1.25, 1.25