[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: ... pcug.org.au... I should renew my membership one of these days. :)
> First time Linux user and first RH7.3 install on a home PC (AMD > XP1700, MSI-K7N420 motherboard with chipset nVIDIA nForce 420D) in > dual boot with Win2000 Prof (in PartitionMagic created freespace on > a 60GB h/d). > > When: > > 1) 'testing setting' during standard install from CD (with what > looks like X windows GUI screens!) - PC crashed (ie the screen > blackened, the hard disk stopped, no keyboard input whatsoever > accepts); > > 2) running X configuration manually from command line and inputing > custom monitor data (since Hanson 710P is not listed) - PC crashed > when 'probing'; > > 3) after downloading and installing nVIDIA GLX, kernel and driver > rpms as suggested in: > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-2960/README.txt > > PC still crashes at the the end of X configuration or at "startx", > and the XFree86.log file is empty... > > What could it be? This is actually because the nForce support is broken badly in Redhat 7.3. DO NOT CONFIGURE X11 AUTOMATICALLY. Bad Karma. etc. XFree86 will crash every time with the nForce until you switch to the NVidia GLX driver, and that requires MANUAL creation/editing of the config file. [The XFree86 config utilities will not just automagically use it once its installed] What you need to do is get somebody else's working XF86Config (or generate one), install the nVidia drivers manually, and change the config to suit your system, and to use the nVidia supplied driver, rather than the default XFree86 nvidia driver. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
