nVidia GeForce 6600 GT hardware problem

[Serdar]

Hi all,
I have GeForce 6600 GT card. I have installed Fedora Core 4 and now I am trying to make FC4 to work with my graphic card. I have installed NVIDIA-xx.run drivers from nvidia's website and I have setup the xorg.conf file with the mentioned setting at nvidia's website.

However, my X server doesn't work anymore. The funny thing is there is no error message at my log files related to this issue. When I try to start X server my monitor goes standby by itself. and I can't even kill X Server nor change my session window to somewhere else (CTRL+ALT+Fx)

By the way, when i change my xorg.conf file's setting from "nvidia" to "nv" X server runs well without 3d support.

So I hope I am not the first person having this problem here.

Thank you very much,
Serdar

[imdeemvp]

Did you commnent out "dri" ? See if this helps. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59937)

[Serdar]

Hi imdeemvp,
I tried many things let me share with you;
- I commented "dri" line but it didnt help so I have uninstalled nvidia's original drivers and and installed my drivers back by using yum. THat didnt help either. And I thought it might be a power management problem and i stopped all the utilities and services related to power management both from my bios and linux services. However I am still having same problem.

[Dragoran]

do setenforce 0 before installing the drivers and setenforce 1 after

[Serdar]

This just did work great. Thank you very much Dragoran.