nVidia Drivers

[Greg Trounson]

Hi,

I had those symptoms once.  How's your free disk space on your root 
filesystem?

Greg


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kiwi-Hawk wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to do this at the moment too and I have beinging there is a
> problem
> with the rivafd module if thats being loaded (don't know where to kill it)
> and
> I now get the Nvidia logo and it dies (can't load default font "fixed".
> This is if I start from startx if I run init 5 it recycles at the logo and I
> can no NOT A THING,.. my boot log states that mdadpd (from memory I'm
> writing this
> from Windoz as I have no access to Linux at this point) fails to load at
> boot time
> 
> I don't know if any of this helps at all
> 
> Cheers
> Pete
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Colin J Thomson
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:50 a.m.
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: nVidia Drivers
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 00:37, Richard E Miles wrote:
> > > I have an nVidia FX5200 video card and I have downloaded its drivers
> > > from nVidia.  When I try to run the installer it says I need to stop
> > > the X Server.  How do I stop the X Server?
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > restart in level 3 as root
> > init 3
> > login as root
> > then run the script
> > after completion of nvidia sript
> > startx
> 
> Yes.. BUT before you startx (init 5) remember you have to edit your
> xorg.conf.
> 
> Comment out dri:
> #       Load  "dri"
> and change the driver to :
> Driver      "nvidia"
> 
> This should be enough to get you up and running, and restarting X you should
> see the NVidia logo.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Colin
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