On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 18:22 -0700, MIKE LURK wrote: > This is for all of the nVidia proponents out there that are having > trouble getting FC pre 6 installed with all the eye candy. This > install was done using the DVD iso. It was a chore getting this to run > as designed but it was well worth the effort. It's a bit long > > 1. Boot from DVD (naturally when you have a DVD from iso) > 2. Choose the defaults for your keyboard, language and > timezone......... > 3. For the partitioning of the drive I left it with the defaults > chosen. ( couldn't change anythingthing other wise it would error at > trying to create a new partition, will try this again later to see if > it was a hardware problem or if it was something to do with LVM). > 4. Choose what you want to install and continue. (I know I skipped the > network stuff and others as well but keeping in mind I am just using > defaulta here. Later I will change a few things). > 5.Finished the install. Remove DVD from drive and let it reboot. > 6.On the First Boot screen, everything is shifted to the right so I > can't see the next button. Then remembered in the mailing list about > removing the rhgb from grub. > 7. Removed rhgb from grub and booted to First Boot screens and chose > what I needed. Continuing > 8. Enter user name and password at the login screen. > 9.1600x1200 resolution, Not good, beyond my monitors range, but still > viewable. Downloading latest beta from nVidia's website. (following > the readme, I went to the next step) > 10. Installed driver and dependancies. (running the installer for the > first time I found that I was missing a few. Using yum I installed > them, gcc and others. Finished the driver install.) Let the installer > run the nVidia xconfigurator. > 11.Reboot computer and login. 1280x1024, very good. Tried to get > Desktop Effects ot run (Preferences>More Prefereces>Desktop Effects) > failed. > > Below you will see what my xorg.conf had to be for the Effects to > work: I just let FC6 do the default nvidia driver out of the box. Yes, I get cannot enable desktop effects. So, I need the nvidia proprietary drivers? > > # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig > # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Sep 14 > 15:50:24 PDT 2006 > > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "fbdevhw" > Load "glx" > Load "record" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from default > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > > ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: > Identifier "Monitor0" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V" > HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Voila, the Desktop Effects works, for me anyways (luckily I had a copy > of my FC 5 xorg.conf handy. Compare the differences between FC 5 and > FC pre 6 ). > There are many other issues with FC pre6. The hosts file has the > loopback IP as ::1 when it should be 127.0.0.1 when using ipv4. The > xorg nv driver does not recognize the proper resolution for the > monitor( or maybe hal). The terminal window is just a white square. > There are others as well. Glad to see you are delaying the release of > FC6. > > Ta Ta > Mike > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list