[ale] question about ASUS vid cards in RH 7.2

[James P. Kinney III]

An issue to be aware of with the nvidia drivers and redhat:

Do not use the kernel framebuffer. If you're running X, you'll be using
the nvidia framebuffer driver code anyway. I'm pretty convinced these
two will conflict if both the nvidia and the kernel framebuffer are
running at the same time. The stock redhat kernels include the
framebuffer module. Try unloading it and reloading the nvidia kernel
module. 

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 09:01, Jeff Rose wrote:
> 	Well I have RH7.2 and GeForce2 MX 200 card and am still having major
> problems with crashes.  I thought downgrading to an older driver had
> solved my problem but it hasn't.  My next step is to go back to the
> generic nv driver and see if that stops the crashing.  Unfortunately
> I'll lose 3D capability.  But I need to pinpoint the problem.  Others
> seem to be having these problems too, check out newsgroups as well as
> nvidia's forums.  I'm not sure if this relates to the kernel RH7.2 uses
> or if its a general bug in the driver.  But I'm leaning toward some
> compatability issue with RH7.2 as I've not seen anyone complain about
> the problem with another distro.  
> 	I know I'm sick of the crashes.  Having used SuSE for 6 months or so
> with no problems I have come to expect a life without crashing. Good
> luck and godspeed.... 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 21:53, LANCE CROCKER wrote:
> > hey this is just a curious question :)
> > 
> > I have an ASUS 7700 GeForce 2 GTS vid card w/ 32 MB DDR on it. I would like to know if any of you have ever had any problems w/ this card while running RedHat 7.2. If you have please tell or at least suggest a different card that has the same amt of power and works well with RH. 
> > 
> > If you haven't had any problems or are currently running RH7.2 w/ this card then please tell me how to get my to work ( besides just the simple stuff that is XConfigurator). I would really like to play tux racer on my PC :) 
> > 
> > anyway thanks ahead of time
> > 
> > lance 
> > 
> > P.S. : i really enjoy reading the emails on this list it is helping learn faster :)
> 
> 
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