Xorg help

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Kevin Wentland wrote:

> I am going to reply to my own post..... I think I found the answer.
> Here it is.... someone called Pucko posted it to a message board.
>
> 1) Interrupt Grub from booting, edit the bootparameters with "e"-key,
> and remove the "rhgb"-parameter from the boot parameters. The continue
> booting normally. (This will skip the graphical boot in Fedora.)
>
> 2) Fedora complains about not being able to start GDM, ignore it and
> cancel all questions to get to the login prompt.
>
> 3) Login as root, enter "init 3" to go to single-user mode. Enter
> "modprobe nvidia" to load the nvidia-module.

Just to nitpick, init3 is not single-user mode, it's non-graphical 
multiuser mode.  init 1 is single-user mode.  But init 3 will work here.

Even easier would be to add "3" (without the quotes) to the kernel line 
when editing it in step 1.

>
> 4) Finally, enter "cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices/" to fix the
> boot problem.
>
> 5) Now just enter "init 5" and you're back in business.

But the easiest thing is to install the nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 and 
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.760_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 RPMs from 
rpm.livna.org.  (There are other sources for nvidia RPMs as well.)

>
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:56:25 -0600, Kevin Wentland
> <kevin.wentland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I upgraded my FC1 to FC3
>>
>> Now I can't get X to run....
>>
>> I have a Chaintech Nvidia 5200 card...
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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