On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 18:22 -0700, MIKE LURK wrote:
This is for all of the nVidia proponents out there that are having
trouble getting FC pre 6 installed with all the eye candy. This
install was done using the DVD iso. It was a chore getting this to run
as designed but it was well worth the effort. It's a bit long
1. Boot from DVD (naturally when you have a DVD from iso)
2. Choose the defaults for your keyboard, language and
timezone.........
3. For the partitioning of the drive I left it with the defaults
chosen. ( couldn't change anythingthing other wise it would error at
trying to create a new partition, will try this again later to see if
it was a hardware problem or if it was something to do with LVM).
4. Choose what you want to install and continue. (I know I skipped the
network stuff and others as well but keeping in mind I am just using
defaulta here. Later I will change a few things).
5.Finished the install. Remove DVD from drive and let it reboot.
6.On the First Boot screen, everything is shifted to the right so I
can't see the next button. Then remembered in the mailing list about
removing the rhgb from grub.
7. Removed rhgb from grub and booted to First Boot screens and chose
what I needed. Continuing
8. Enter user name and password at the login screen.
9.1600x1200 resolution, Not good, beyond my monitors range, but still
viewable. Downloading latest beta from nVidia's website. (following
the readme, I went to the next step)
10. Installed driver and dependancies. (running the installer for the
first time I found that I was missing a few. Using yum I installed
them, gcc and others. Finished the driver install.) Let the installer
run the nVidia xconfigurator.
11.Reboot computer and login. 1280x1024, very good. Tried to get
Desktop Effects ot run (Preferences>More Prefereces>Desktop Effects)
failed.
Below you will see what my xorg.conf had to be for the Effects to
work:
I just let FC6 do the default nvidia driver out of the box.
Yes, I get cannot enable desktop effects. So, I need the nvidia
proprietary drivers?
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Sep 14
15:50:24 PDT 2006
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Voila, the Desktop Effects works, for me anyways (luckily I had a copy
of my FC 5 xorg.conf handy. Compare the differences between FC 5 and
FC pre 6 ).
There are many other issues with FC pre6. The hosts file has the
loopback IP as ::1 when it should be 127.0.0.1 when using ipv4. The
xorg nv driver does not recognize the proper resolution for the
monitor( or maybe hal). The terminal window is just a white square.
There are others as well. Glad to see you are delaying the release of
FC6.
Ta Ta
Mike