Thanks for the help. I am getting closer now I think. I got the drivers from NVIDIA and installed them as mentioned on the website. Now when I try 'startx' I get the error
Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting. When I look in the log file, everything seems to load properly up until it says (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension. Then I get the error above and X server stops. Any thoughts? Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff DeFay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] X server help > I have a RH8.0 machine with a graphics card using a newer NVIDIA chip > and also have had > problems with X with each kernel upgrade; the secret is that NVIDIA has > their own drivers. > I'm at the 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and had to use the > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm & NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm driver > patches from NVIDIA to get things working properly. > They have pretty good instructions on their web site. I've learned > that 'rpmbuild --rebuild' with the *.src.rpm files is a better method > than using the precompiled rpms. > > Try the URL: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and > select the 'Linux IA32 Display Drivers ' link. > > Regards, > Jeff DeFay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Jennifer Stickel wrote: > > >Hi all, > > I am having technical difficulties with XFree86. A while back, I > >tried to update my video drivers. It worked for the setup that I had > >but not with any of the update that came out (I am using RH 8.0). So > >recently I tried to get my video card to work with the newer kernel > >version available. Now I have lost all ability to use X. I tried > >uninstalling my drivers and it won't rebuild the newest source rpm. I > >then tried downloading the newest version of XFree86 binaries. They > >seem to install correctly and the configuration script runs, but doesn't > >make my mouse work properly. Then when I type startx at the prompt, it > >tries to start X but then I get the error message > > > >PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1" > >No core pointer > > > >Fatal server error: > >Failed to initialize core devices > > > >Can anyone help me to figure out how to get X back and running on > >machine? > > > >Machine Specs: > >Dell Optiplex > >512 MB RAM > >NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 video card > > > >RedHat 8.0 / Windows 2000 Pro dual boot > > > >Thanks!! > > > >Jennifer Stickel > > > >_______________________________________________ > >vox-tech mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
