Re: FC5t3 and the nv driver woes

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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
> 
Thanks, bug submitted
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6038


> -- 
> Mike A. Harris  *  Open Source Advocate  *  http://mharris.ca
>                        Proud Canadian.
> 

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