blank" do you not understand? ;) If you do not believe there is any problem, consider the complexity of Johnny Hughes's solution! If Johnny Hughes's solution works for him and he is happy with it, that is great -- more power to him. (The FAQ includes a write up of Johnny's solution.) I have two replies. 1) Back a couple of months ago, as a test, I tried his solution, and the screen on my Mag DX1495 still went blank with the two nVIDIA cards that I tested. 2) I would rather just plug in a card which works right out of the box on a standard, SUPPORTED kernel, than to go through all the complicated steps in Johnny's solution. But this is just my personal preference. I can use the nVIDIA cards in Linux with compatible monitors or in Windows with any monitor (as far as I know). BTW, the computer on which I am writing this email runs CentOS, and with this Acer 77c monitor, I am using an nVIDIA GeForce display card -- it works fine with THIS hardware. Rick Message: 7 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:17:26 -0400 From: Christopher Blume <godsmoke at godsmoke.com> To: centos at caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] nVIDIA on CentOS 3.3 Hello Rick, I have to say, I found your notice of nVidia cards "not working" as a little odd. To begin with -- drivers *generally* do not vary between distributions of linux. So, the fact that your card "doesn't work" with CentOS means that something else went wrong -- not that the drivers don't exist, or don't function properly. First of all, I'd be interested to see where your conclusion that your monitor doesn't work with an nVidia card in linux came from -- what exactly did you experience/test to come to this statement? I don't know anything about Kudzu, but, let me tell you, the nVidia Riva TNT 2 is ABSOLUTELY supported by the linux kernel -- and XFree86 ABSOLUTELY runs on it. If it's not working on your system, instead of making conclusions about Linux as a whole, understand that there are probably issues with the configuration files you either manually wrote, or the programs CentOS/RHEL bundles with the distro did. nVidia cards have the absolute best support under linux of any video card -- and I highly doubt what you experienced was a driver issue -- if it was, it was because of some mangled patch that RedHat applied, because the driver for nVidia TNTs is used by tens of thousands of Linux users. Thank You, Christopher Blume