Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Krider" <david@davidkrider.com>
To: <psyche-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?


> I have two dual Athlons with a GeForce 4 and a GeForce 2. On both of
> these machines, the installer correctly identified the video cards.
> However, when it came time to configure X during the installation, every
> resolution and color depth I tried would fail. I eventually just skipped
> it and moved on. When I got into the system for the first time, I
> noticed that the installer had put the `vesa' driver in the XFConfig
> file instead of the `nv' driver. What's up with that?

If the card isn't supported or not detected correctly, it defaults to the
vesa driver to at least help you get a running system.

Mike





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