[nflug] Fedora 7 Review

[Cyber Source]

Make sure you have the correct driver for that card, they are not all 
inclusive anymore. Also, a little option might be screwing you up, I 
forget what the exact option line is but it had something to do with glx 
and composite.

Stephen Burke wrote:
> Kevin E. Glosser wrote:
>> As I tried to relay in my review, sometimes there is compromise when 
>> using Fedora. Make no mistake, Ubuntu is not without it's own issues. 
>> There are consequences to their approach as well. I've seen them 
>> first hand. My brother uses Ubuntu, and I've had to help him fix 
>> issues specifically related to delays resulting in the Ubuntu project 
>> upgrading very slowly.
>>
>> I specifically remember my brother wanting to use Compiz/Beryl a 
>> while ago and he couldn't. He couldn't because he was using Ubuntu's 
>> packaged NVIDIA driver. That's fine and dandy, but Ubuntu was very 
>> slow in updating their package. NVIDIA released a new driver and it 
>> took a very long time for Ubuntu to release it. That driver was 
>> required for Compiz/Beryl to work with the hardware my brother had. 
>> He had two choices, sit and wait or go out on his own and install the 
>> latest NVIDIA driver manually.
>
> I was hoping this conversation might eventually get around to NVIDIA 
> issues in fedora. Ever since fedora 5 or so, I've had nothing but 
> trouble with the nvidia card in this computer. I keep hoping the NEXT 
> version of fedora might fix things but so far it hasn't. I grabbed 
> fedora 7 recently full of hope and got nowhere with it. Every time, X 
> fails to start when it can't find a monitor attached to the 
> motherboard video card, which seems trully strange when the signal has 
> to go through the nvidia card for me to even see X failing. Actually, 
> I prefer BLAG, which (I think) strips out much the the bloat mentioned 
> previously in this thread, but I get the same X problems there, so I'm 
> thinking it's a fedora thing.
>
> The card in question is this one:
> $ lspci
> 00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 
> MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
>
> I realize it's kind of old by now, and was pretty cheap to begin with, 
> but wtf? Fedora is really the only distro I've seen this with.
>
> Any ideas? Boot options that might get me around it?
>
> Thanks,
> S.
>
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