Until now I've not had any trouble with NVIDIA Linux drivers.
At some point when I had either FC5 or FC7 (I forget which), I had issues with some OpenGL application. I thought maybe I needed to update the video driver, which I hadn't done in a long time. I did, and X didn't work. I had to revert to the stock X11.org, software emulated OpenGL driver. So, I had no more OpenGL for anything.
So now I'm running FC8. I looked in the lvna repository for a NVIDIA driver and thought I found one (this laptop has a GeForce 440 Go - GeForce4 chip for mobile computing - and 1024x768 LCD + external SVGA interface). I installed it with the dependencies - kernel module, libraries, etc.
Now I have a black screen when I start X. No errors in the X log file, the driver seems to recognize the card, and in fact when I change screen resolutions, I see in the log file the entry for each change.
So now I have to revert to the "stock" FC8 X driver (after I figure out the name of the package(s) to install).
Thanks NVIDIA and Fedora. PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting Services www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
