Red Hat 9 Nvidia drivers

[shuiend]

yes i switched back to RH 9 from slack. Now i installed the Nvidia drivers and changed the XF86Config file. Now when i restart X all i get is random asci characters on my screen. All i changed in the config was "nv" to "nvidia" which is what the readme says. Can any one help with this problem? Void i will do that startx > log thing later tonight when i get home and post that. But i need to know where to change it so it boots up to command line first so i can startx that way.

[Void Main]

I'm not sure that my suggestions will be any different than they were toward the end of the other thread:

viewtopic.php?t=358&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

I don't do anything different than you have done and mine works. I don't have the same card and haven't seen anyone else with this problem. That's pretty much why I suggested you ask this question on that nVidia forum that I linked to in the above thread:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdi ... forumid=14

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After searching the above forums very briefly I found a thread with people who have a similar problem as you are having:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... adid=10856

I am willing to bet with a little more searching you will find several related threads. If it happened to me I would suspect a hardware issue and not a driver/configuration problem but that's just me. The above thread mentions a problem with BIOS versions on some main boards causing a problem. And it can be a problem that you might see in Linux bot not on Windows.

You also might want to take the suggestion in that thread for getting more debugging info by adding some params to the "startx" command:

$ startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5
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[shuiend]

i went there and i think it is the Motherboard i got. I have the Epox 8rda+ which is the same they got. I think i will just u gerneric drivers for now tell this problem is fixed. Also void Main what vid card you usin right now?

[Void Main]

I'm just using a cheap lowly GeForce 2 card but it's performance is excellent for everything I do. Regarding your motherboard, didn't they say something about flashing the BIOS would fix it (possibly flashing to an older version)? Or maybe they were referring to an older version of the nVidia driver? I would do a little more research if I were you as I find significant improvement in performance using the nVidia drivers (most noticable on GL stuff).

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The guy in that thread said the 3129 BIOS worked so you may want to try and install it. Here's the download page with all the BIOS downloads for that board and here is the actual 3129 BIOS file. I don't know if you can downgrade but you might want to try it.
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[shuiend]

VoidMain would you still happen to have the old srcrpms for the nvidia drivers? I would like to try with my vid card/mobo with those. I had them working in the past with those and i really want to stop bootin windows for games.

[shuiend]

OK i found those src rpms but when i try to compile them with rpmbuild -bb i and getting errors. I will post those tommorow as soon as a i get back in to linux