Re: New Gforce card

[Matt Hugo <mhugo82@charter.net>]

In Red Hat I use the generic gforce driver not the gforce 4 driver. 
 Then set colors to 16 as I could not get it to work with 24 bit color. 
 That should start up just fine into X(assuming everything else is 
correct).  After you get that going go to the site I mentioned and get 
the tar files--"should" work.

Since you already have it set-up go into the XF86config-4 file and to 
the display driver section, change "nv" to "vesa" (with quotes) and 
default color dept to 16. save the file. then type startx.  If it 
doesn't work send me the log file and I will take a look at it.

I hope I am helping- only been a 'nix user for 4 months or so.  I use 
Debian now, so I do not have aRH install right now. If you need to go 
ahead and email me directly. mhugo82@charter.net

Matt


David Leathers wrote:

>Thanks Matt
>
>I've just hosed my system two times in the last two days and have been
>trying to put things back together.  "You gotta love this stuff Right".  And
>thanks to the others that responded -- not sure who as I lost all of my
>email in the last fight to the death? Guess I need to learn more about
>partitions.
>
>I dual boot with win2k.  I have it installed and RH 8.0 installed now.  When
>I ran the 8.0 install it set up the generic gforce 4 card.  I can now only
>boot into text mode.  I tried to use xf86config to reconfigure but have got
>nowhere with that.  Not sure what I should try next.  I did set colors to
>24.  The drivers that you provided links to will not do me any good until I
>can get into X right?  If you know what I should try next please let me
>know.
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>


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