Hello. I have uninstalled the new driver for the NVIDIA Fx500 card and have changed the XF86Config file to nv instead of Nvidia. I can now get a graphical interface and startx works on the new kernel. I need to use open gl for an application will this work fully? The problem is when I try to install the drivers again I get the error about the kernel source path. It says that I should use the --kernel-source-path command at the command line. Have you got any suggestions about how I use this? Also this seems really stupid asking this but in the advanced tab it uses dots per square inch and mm for the monitor size. How do I convert this to resolutions that I understand my monitor works at? Finally, I need to find out the fixed number of my computer. I think that it is something to do with the network card or something - it's like a serial code. Do you know how I find it at the command line. I promise that I will go away soon. Howard -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Howard Protheroe Sent: 05 February 2004 13:46 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: display problems - please help 2 Hello Stuart. Not sure if you have seen my email with the log and XF86 file attached. I didn't realise that adding attachments was not allowed. I virus checked them first. Anyway. I tried what you suggested in this email and the results are posted below. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stuart Sears Sent: 04 February 2004 19:36 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: display problems - please help 2 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 19:17, Howard Protheroe wrote: > Stuart - or anybody who has any advice. > Thanks for your advice earlier it worked perfectly..until I registered with > the rh network and it updated my version of Rh from 2.4.20-6 to 2.4.20-28.9 > and now it will not work. (Take some more advice? Please _bottom_ post - reply underneath the relevant parts of the message you are answering - it's much easier to follow the thread that way) It won't work because it is a kernel module and the new kernel will not contain the module. This is a royal PITA down to the way that nvidia now distribute their drivers - you can only have one kernel module on the system at a time, UNLESS: you backup the original (for your first kernel) and then install for the updated kernel, then copy the backup back to where it was. (there was a day when NVidia distributed kernel mods and glx separately which didn't cause this problem... bah humbug) > I have tried installing the driver again and it won't let me because of the > kernal. It can't find the code or something. what exactly does it say? what is the error message? I seem to remember that you can force the install, if need be. > When I try and do a startx it > crashes. I tried to copy my xconfig file through to windows but can't seem > to see it. you can still boot your old kernel though, right? This should still work, as should X. > > I can feel another install coming on.. reinstallation is a sign of weakness. Don't do it. That's for Windows people... ;-) unless you mean the driver, of course... > > I think that the issue may be due to the monitor setting. It is set on 400 > 300 but I am unsure what that is and what to change it to. Currently I am > using a Philips 201b40 and am trying to set the resolution to 1280x1024. > Any more help would be much appreciated. redhat-config-xfree86 (not while x is running, or trying to. boot into runlevel 3 first, as discussed last time. init 3 from a console as root will do this without rebooting the entire machine. if you do this, you may need to hit return again to get your prompt back, it looks like it's hanging, but it usually isn't) on the advanced tab you can configure your monitor. If your model is not shown, then you pick Generic and choose a resolution that you know your monitor can display. For your graphics card you can choose the generic nvidia driver too, which should work fine, if you don't need 3d. HP : In the new kernel it couldn't start x server, tried to refresh and the use a generic driver but nothing and the monitor switched off. In the old kernel the screen went white and flickered and then turned off. It looked offset and the wrong size. On another help forum I read that 'the nvidia kernel module has to be rebuilt for every kernel upgrade. For such a rebuild kernel sources/includes must be installed and match your running kernel' but I haven't a clue how to do this. Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. Howard -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
