Trouble with nvidia FC4, Inspiron 8500, must be missing something

TroyGeek troygeek at gmail.com
Sun Nov 6 02:35:44 UTC 2005


Hello,
I just installed Fedora Core 4 (FC4) and I'm having trouble getting
the binary nvidia driver working on my Dell Inspiron 8500 (with
1920x1200 resolution). I've installed the driver without trouble in
FC1-FC3.

I went to init 3, installed the driver, ran then added '/sbin/modprobe
nvidia' to rc.local, removed rhgb from the grub.conf to bypass the
udev problem (does that still exist in FC4?) and tried configuring my
xorg.conf based on examples I found on the web.

When I try to start 'x' the nvidia splash screen shows for about a
second then crashes.

I get this error...don't know if it means anything:

Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

Does anyone have this working on a Dell Inspiron 8500 with 1920x1200
resolution? Could you send me an example xorg.conf?

Thank You!

~ TroyGeek ~




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