Nvidia help

[xptweakerntn]

i have a geforce 5500fx and onboard intel integrated graphics. i think that is part of the problem, they are conflicting. i can' start into fedora if the card is in. i want to figure out how to get the card to work. can someone help me? any help is apreciated, aim is alright also

[thesun]

I have a GeForce 5500fx and Intel card too (Dell Dimension 2400) and I've posted my xorg.conf file in hopes of getting another issue resolved. You might take a peek at it and see if it offers any clues -- but don't copy it line for line, as it currently doesn't work. :-) Good luck. If you're able to get to a shell prompt (meaning, it boots but won't let X start) then try running "/usr/bin/system-config-display" and see if that helps. If you're not even getting anything from the monitor at all, then you need to be more specific about what's going on. Do you have a dual boot? If so, try configuring the monitor in (insert expletive here) Windoze first.

It's been a long time since I've installed my card, but as I recall, there was an easily fixed issue where the boot would suddenly disappear completely...leaving the screen blank. I thought it was a card issue, but it turned out to just be that I had my monitor plugged into the wrong slot on the GeForce card (the old, square plug, three square holes problem!). Make sure that's not the case and that it's not still plugged into the Intel motherboard, too. But once you've gotten that issue resolved, try posting more detail about what difficulties you're having (can you see the boot? Are you getting a black screen? Are colors flashing? Have you run the Nvidia Livna rpms?) and if possible post an xorg.conf file (you can get that at a terminal by typing "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf" or editing it with a text editor like emacs). By posting more descriptively, other folks can help out and let you know what they think the problem might be. Sorry I can't be more helpful...but I hope that helps you get started.

Good luck.

[xptweakerntn]

well, for one thing, when i try to boot using the card (i know 100% that it is all plugged in correctly) it pops up with the screen that shows fedora, (i think this is a gui for grub) and then counts down 3 seconds, then turns into text mode (i guess you could say), and freezes there. it just freezes. my xorg.conf, i don't think i have it set up correctly, i will paste it anyway, but i think it got replaced anyway when i took the card out and booted again, it replaced it with default i think.


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x864" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

i tried once putting my card there, and putting nv (and/or nvidia, i thinki i tried both at different times) i put ots of stuff on there from various tutorials. To install drivers, i did this

su -
rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
yum update kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
service nvidia-glx restart

that seemed to all work. i had the same problem in ubuntu, finally got it working, i had to put something in /etc/modules, and in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. i think the latter was to tell linux to ignore my onboard.

[Firewing1]

One thing you could try would be to disable onboard in BIOS, or boot up Fedora and then switch the monitor to the onboard. Run 'system-config-display', and from there just disable the Intel.
Firewing1

[nick.stumpos]

i can tell you for sure that xorg wont work with you nvidia card, try creating one using either the open nv driver or do a yum install kmod-nvidia, and use their prop driver. also your bios probably allows you to change the active video card, you may want to look into this

[xptweakerntn]

i have switched my primary video adapter in my bios to pci, i have to or else nothing will show up when i plug my monitor into the card. but i can't boot, right after grub is showed, it freezes up. as far as xorg working, i am not sure how to do some of that. i know i installed kmod-nvidia. i don't know how to "create" a xorg.conf using any driver! system-config-display, how would i disable onboard?

[Firewing1]

Once your screen goes blank - If you plug it in to the other port (onboard), do you see an image?

[xptweakerntn]

when i have the card in, BIOS switched to PCI, and try to boot, it hands right after the GRUB( I THINK THATS WHAT IT IS, ITS THE SCREEN RIGHT AFTER BIOS AND COUNTS DOWN THREE SECONDS), it hangs, and it isn't blank, there is just a lot of "error" codes, and it freezes up and does nothing. if i have the BIOS set to onboard with my card in (moniter plugged up to onboard) it will boot, but xorg won't start. i tried system-config-display, but i didn't see anything about disabling anything, just selecting the model of my card. i tried some stuff in there, even selecting nvidia, and rebooting, same thing.

[Firewing1]

Can you catch some of the errors and post them here?
Firewing1