Fedora Core 2 on Latitude (Nvidia issue)

From: José Arango (arango_at_caribe.net)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Hello everyone,

    I'm using Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Latitude C840. The onboard graphic chip is
    "nVidia GeForce 4 440 Go". I'm having problems making this driver work. I
    did download the latest driver from nvidia.com. I run the installer, and
    then I modifiy (accordingly..to the readme) the Xfree86 config file (in FC2
    it's the xorg.conf). When I then switch to runlevel 5 the computer hangs.

    I've been looking on the web. It seems there is an issue with the nvidia
    driver and the current kernel in this Fedora release. I could keep using
    the generic driver but the image isn't that quite perfect.

    Anyone knows of a work-around?

    Thanks,
    Jose

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