"Terry S." wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to my dilema of trying to get the
> NVIDIA_kernel RPM for my LM 8.1 system. I did as everyone suggested and
> downloaded, rebuilt, and instlled the source RPM. Things seemed to go well
> as the packages installed, with only the customary warnings that NVIDIA
> warns you about when installing the packages. I made the necessary changes
> in my /etc/X11/XFconfig-4 (i think that's what it's called, i'm not at my
> linux box) as suggested by NVIDIA's website, and then rebooted. Things
> booted up just fine, but as soon as X started up and showed the KDM login
> screen, the machine completely locked up, forcing to press the reset button
> to get out of it. Anyone have any more suggestions on how to remedy this
> situation? I've looked the the Xserver logs, and nothing seems out of the
> ordinary. It shows that the NVIDIA kernel, the NVdriver, and even the glx
> libraries loading ok (at least it doesn't show any errors about loading
> them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Terry
Terry, through 2 Nvidia video cards, I've always done away with the graphical
login...kill that, then when you logon, you just have to do a "startx" from
the shell...
Works great here... ;-)
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