I hope this is the right venue to post. I have an Intel computer
running RH7.2 kernel 2.4.9-34 with KDE 2.2 and XFree86 4.1.0. I have been
trying unsuccessfully to add a new video card to this machine. I have two
video cards both AGP 1. ATI Rage 128 16MB 2. NVIDIA GForce4 mx440 64MB. I
have tried two different ways of installing this card and I am unsuccessful
on both tries. First I tried a clean install with the NVIDIA card installed
and Linux would not boot to X windows, just to a command prompt. It never
asked me for drivers to install during the installation process, maybe I
just don't have enough experience with Linux to know where to install during
the installation process. Second I installed the OS with the ATI card
installed and everything worked great. I downloaded the NVIDIA kernel and
GLX drivers to my machine. Next I shutdown the system and physically
installed the NVIDIA card. Linux booted and then asked me if I wanted to
remove the ATI card drivers, I removed the ATI card drivers. Linux then went
to command prompt where I installed the kernel driver first and then the GLX
driver with the below commands
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX.i386.rpm
The drivers installed correctly with no errors. I then ran the
command "startx" . X windows never started and it showed me errors on the
screen. The error was too long and I do not know how to capture to a file on
a floppy. I used the command "vi xfree86.9.log and xfree86.0.log" to view
the logs. It had information about both the ATI and the NVIDIA cards but
once again do not know how to post information here. I shutdown the machine
and physically uninstalled the NVIDIA card and installed the ATI card. Linux
recognized the ATI card on boot up, however when it tested the resolution
that I wanted 16 1024X768 it failed, tried many other combinations and all
failed. Now I can not boot into KDE at all, just a command prompt. Any
information on what I need to do to get the ATI card working again. Also my
ultimate goal is to get the NVIDIA card working, any info on this? XFree86
4.2.0 fixes this? I'm not bad at command prompt, but I do not know how to
download files from the internet from command prompt very well. Currently I
am using the same machine with Win2000 dual boot to send this message.
Jon
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