Hi, I have this box and it has to have the most hateful gpu in it. It has the nvidia geforce FX Go5700 in it. I have tried this box with Suse 10.0 and Slackware and my patients are wearing thin. Under Suse you could install the driver through Yast. Which worked well and gave direct rendering, but each time you closed the lid, let screen saver end to power off the monitor or just left it to long it would freeze. Also suspend to disc would not work either as it would freeze upon revival. So I tried slack and did the whole setup with a 2.4.31? kernel I think. Startx worked and so I went on to download the driver from the site. cd to dl directory and sh Nvidia...etc... which starts the installer and then fails saying that my headers or such are missing. So it asks to download them from the site so I say yes. Then that fails too! So then it says it is going to compile them from my modules and that works and ends the installer. Issuing startx freezes the machine hard. So copy back the original xorg.conf then issue xorgconfig and go from there and putting in all the horizontal and vertical frequencies and such then I load the nvidia driver #348? from the list. Nvidia Geforce. So it works still but there is no direct rendering no nothing glxinfo says can't find nothing. Even in windows I cannot update this device it use the restore disc cause it is a laptop and they suck to do by hand. It has a driver from the end of 04 so I though for sure it could stand to be updated. It says there is not device for that driver with the unified driver. Pardon me, but !! Thanks for listening.

The fails during the nvidia installer are nothing to worry about, I don't think I've ever seen it be successful....besides you are better off leaving it to compile it for your system. Did you edit your xorg.conf after compiling the drivers? Perhaps changing the AGP mode will help. First try with it off, then try the nvidia one, then agpgart. Option "NvAGP" "0" (= off) Option "NvAGP" "1" (= nvidia) Option "NvAGP" "2" (= agpgart)

I have an FX5600 Go and in my experience you get good results as long as you use a 2.6 kernel and have your kernel source installed. Nothing's broken until you choose not to fix it.

try debian bisnes card it works for me. I'm useing it now

trying ubuntu and same thing black screen with verticla white stripe up right hand side, three inches wide and system lock. Got direct rendering going though and nvidia control panel. But the rendering is so slow. And this is not that slow of a card. It think it may be limited to the way kernel is configured. It probably is compiled just for i686 support not anything higher. And we all know that i686 can be as little as 100 mhz I think. This has a P-M 1.8 ghz cpu, wondering if I enable toshiba support and acpi in the kernel if all would work slick.

Post you Xorg logfile @ /var/log/Xorg.0.log or the likes. Nothing's broken until you choose not to fix it.

Does anyone have a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 for sale? Email me go_ivn@yahoo.com. Thanks!