On February 3, 2004 11:48 am, Howard Protheroe wrote: > Hello, > > I set-up redhat 9 working with two monitors and it was working fine. Why > tinker? I hear you ask. > > The problem.. > I upgraded my video card to a nvidia fx500 and everything has gone to pot. > I seemed to mess up everything trying to install the drivers and resorted > to reloading the whole of redhat hoping that it would all be simple. > > From my install disc I couldn't get a graphical install so I did a text > based install. > > Selected the driver for nvidia fx series. > > Now the computer will not boot past the 'starting firstboot' stage and my > monitor goes dead saying no signal. I don't seem to be able to get to the > command prompt. > > Please help. > Thanks > Howard Hi, to get past first boot, you'll probably have to use single user mode, then either create or edit: /etc/sysconfig/firstboot to contain: RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO I you'lll probably need to get nvidea drivers and/or edit /etc/X11/XF86Config once you get into the system. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
