FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

[alan]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Michael Raab wrote:

> Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2006 17:35 schrieb Matthias Haase:
>>> I have to remove rhgb from grub.conf in order to boot up to runlevel 5.
>>
>> With rhgb enabled at the kernel command line I get always this:
>>
>> "gdm[2296]: no suitable security token driver could be found"
>>
>> Of course gdm doesn't start. gdm starts after telinit 3 and later
>> telinit 5 only. There is no error without rhgb.
>>
>> Same with vanilla kernel 2.6.18.1, compiled for smp.
>> Not a big problem because the RHGraphicalBoot isn't really needed...
>> SELinux is disabled at runtime.
>>
>> Can anybody confirm this? Any ideas?
>
> No. With the Nvidia-Driver 9626 i have Problems with Twinview. I have
> connected a Monitor and a Televsion on the Graphicboard. I build a
> DKMS-Package with the Driver 8776.

The most reliable way I have found to get twinview to work is to use the 
nvidia-settings app in X after everything is connected.  Use the "detect 
output" (or whatever they call it) and set up the second monitor using the 
app.  The pain is you have to do it each time you want to use it.  (The 
save xconfig does not seem to work, even if you are root.)

Twinview configured with the app seems to work fine in both 32 bit and 64 
bit.  The only issue I have had, other than the above, has more to do with 
the bad memory choices of my laptop manufacturer than the video driver. 
(They split the memory between dedicated and shared memory on the HP 
zv5200z.  Fast updates cause striping on tv-out due to differing memory 
speeds.)

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