From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: I tried to fresh install linux 7.1 on a new dell's inspiron 8100 with nvidia geforce2go video card. No matter what I choose (generic vga, nvidia geforce2), installation crash after formatting the partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.select nvidia geforce2 video card 2.select 16 bit color depth and 800*600 resolution 3.testing setting is ok 4.installation crash when it start to install 5.The system is shutting down Actual Results: I got on the screen: X server started successfullty Gdk error: Fatal IO error104(Connection reset by peer)on x server :9 Gtk-Warning: cannot open display: :9 Additional info:
Created attachment 31135 [details] core dump of installation
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53168 ***
Just an update: Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich> To: XFree86 devel list <devel> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Nvidia status document: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Thomas Witzel wrote: > What means GeForce2 Go is not supported ? XFree runs on mine... > Some people have said the Toshiba laptops work with the "nv" driver. I've never seen it work, and frankly, I don't see how it can. It certainly doesn't work on the one we have here. Must be some sort of bios miracle you are seeing. The "nv" driver definitely does not support the GeForce2 Go in terms of having code required to make it work for the general case. Mark.