Re: rivafb module

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

The graphical boot (Penguin/high-res consoles) using RivaFB is _why_ you were having issues.
Using VESA VBE is recommended instead of RivaFB when you use the nVidia nvidia/GLX drivers.
Or do you mean the startup tracker GUI?

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-----Original Message-----
From:  Ken Keefe 
Date:  05-2-4 12:35
To:  silug-discuss@silug.org
Subj:  Re: rivafb module

Well, hats off to you... It did work. I wonder what happened last time
that made it a pain. It even fixed the graphical boot, which of course
is no big deal, but it is nice...

Ken

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:22 -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:13 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:25:07PM -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> > > So, I am tweaking my new Fedora 3 installation on my laptop and I
> > > downloaded nVidia's driver script, because the nvidia driver that comes
> > > packaged with FC3 wasn't using direct rendering and GL apps were  slow.
> > 
> > OK, stop right there...  If you are running FC3, you *really* don't
> > want to use the nvidia installer.  Point apt or yum at rpm.livna.org's
> > testing repository (and stable while you are at it, but right now you
> > definitely need testing) and install kernel-module-nvidia-`uname -r`.
> > 
> I did do this and direct rendering stopped working. So, I was getting
> terrible GL performance. What the hell, I'll try it again and see if
> something else has changed...
> 
> Ken
> 
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