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| Thread ID: 41005 | 2003-12-26 19:10:00 | Red Hat 9 tweaking, fixing, and making hospitable | Jaguar (4442) | Press F1 |
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| 203353 | 2003-12-29 23:30:00 | Excellent news! :D Well done Chill for guiding Jaguar through this, and good on you Jaguar for persisting with it :D (how's the coffee supply going?) >Now, about the nVidia drivers. I'm hoping to actually get them installed Didn't you already install them? By following the instructions and booting into runlevel 3 with "telinit 3" and running the installer and getting a "successful" message? You only now need to have another crack at the XF86Config to tell X to use them. Have a look at my XF86Config file to see how I have made the changes - you only need to change the Section "Module" and the Section "Device". Also, take a look at your current XF86Config and make sure that your nVidia card has been detected and recorded correctly. (Just trying to eliminate the possibility of another "horribly wrong" experience :) ) Example: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Your card will obviously be different as I think you have a GeForce 4 Ti4200 from memory. If you like, you can post here your default XF86Config file and we can show you exactly how to change it. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 203354 | 2003-12-30 01:12:00 | OK, since Opera can't handle Java right now and doesn't want to install any Shockwave, I can't use my www.davidbowie.com webspace as a host! :( Instead, I've relied to my good old pal (no, not really) of Angelfire. Hope it works. Here! (www.angelfire.com) Tell me what to do... Need some stronger coffee... better head over to Foodtown... :| |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 203355 | 2003-12-30 01:27:00 | Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" <---remove this whole line EndSection **It should then look like this: Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection ----------------------------------------------------- Next, the driver reference: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" <---- change this to nvidia VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" VideoRam 131072 EndSection **It should then look like this: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" VideoRam 131072 EndSection Save the changes and restart X, fingers & toes crossed :D |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 203356 | 2003-12-30 01:46:00 | I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the same thing happened again after doing all of that. I was just wondering, how can you change the XF86Config while X is still running? Wouldn't it be better to shut down X and then do it? Anyway, seeing as that didn't work... where to from here? |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 203357 | 2003-12-30 01:53:00 | :_| :_| !! Well you have me stumped now - you can change the XF86Config file whilst X is running as it has already "read" the file when you first loaded X. That is why you need to restart X so that it can read off the new instructions. I have done this quite a few times now myself and I only killed off X once due to a typo I made in the config file. >Anyway, seeing as that didn't work... where to from here? ChillLL ...!!?! |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 203358 | 2003-12-30 01:55:00 | Better get the coffee out, because by the sounds of things, this is going to get a lot worse and a lot harder!! | Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 203359 | 2003-12-30 02:01:00 | I have to check ... you definitely installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run OK? It gave you a successful installation message? Try running the installer again, from the command line. Just navigate to where ever you have the file saved and install it again. Make sure there are no error messages. > Better get the coffee out, because by the sounds of things, this is going to get a lot worse and a lot harder!! Think of this as a good learning experience, get this sorted and you will have already lost a bit of your linux-newbie shine :D. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 203360 | 2003-12-30 02:03:00 | >Think of this as a good learning experience, get this sorted and you will have already lost a bit of your linux-newbie shine Wow, you put in in perspective for me, thanks!! :P I'm outat the moment, will reinstall when I get back. |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 203361 | 2003-12-30 02:20:00 | Right, I reinstalled the nVidia drivers and zilch. Same result. Now I'm really going to head out. So, we tried it several times to no avail... suggest away. |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 203362 | 2003-12-30 02:30:00 | Im still going to suggest you havent installed the Drivers correctly Try booting, and when you get the Blue Screen to fix it or whatver, Hit Ctrl + Alt + F2 and type: tail /var/log/XFree86.0.log Then let us know what it says. If you still have a floppy, then do the following, otherwise ignore it: Put the floppy in mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy rm -rf /mnt/floppy * <-- This is removing the contents of your floppy cp /var/log/XFree86.0.log /mnt/floppy umount /mnt/floppy Then if you can post it on here, or upload it to the net somewhere, that'd be brill :-) Cheers Chill. |
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