nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sun Nov 7 04:20:17 UTC 2004


on that line in grub, do I remove everything after the kernel version?

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

as in after the .667?


On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:07 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:03 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:23 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Greg,
> >>>
> >>>I've seen this same issue on a Dell Latitude C840 with the new Nvidia
> >>>6629 with a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and FC2.  I don't think it's specific
> >>>to FC3T*.
> >>>
> >>>Best,
> >>>
> >>>Steve
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:59 -0600, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks for the info.  The new 6629 nvidia driver works on my Dell 8100 
> >>>>notebook, yet DPMS still doesn't work.  It used to work in FC2.
> >>>>
> >>>>The 6629 driver does NOT work on my Compaq R3000z.   The previous 
> >>>>version did work ok but 6629 has a majorly messed up screen upon starting X.
> >>>>
> >>>>Anyone else having troubles with the NVIDIA driver on an R3000Z??
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Jim Martin wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, 
> >>>>>check www.nvidia.com for th update
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>-- 
> >>>>Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
> >>>>greg @ gulik.org
> >>>>        
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>well I'm glad you posted this, I have a C840 and was just getting ready
> >>to try the nvidia instead of nv, think I'll hold off... thanks.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>=Guy
> >>13:02:33 up 3:50, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.24, 1.12
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >well, I went ahead and did it anyway, the driver works fine, but I have
> >to boot to runlevel 3 then startx manually.
> >
> >I would prefer to have my gdm back with my nice gnome login, but if I
> >change my runlevel back to 5 then I get no joy, lot's of strange errors.
> >
> >so I can't put runlevel 5 back in inittab...any ideas what I could do to
> >get my gdm back with the new drivers? (they are nice btw, all my gl
> >stuff is very fast now.)
> >
> >thanks in advance.
> >
> >  
> >
> just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, 
> and I can use my gdm with no problem.
> 
> Jim
> 

-- 
=Guy
22:19:15 up 59 min, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 1.00, 1.15




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