nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Jim Martin]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

>on that line in grub, do I remove everything after the kernel version?
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>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
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>as in after the .667?
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>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:07 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
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>>W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:03 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:23 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
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>>>>>Greg,
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>>>>>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*.
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>>>>>Best,
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>>>>>Steve
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>>>>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:59 -0600, Gregory Gulik wrote:
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>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??
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>>>>>>Jim Martin wrote:
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>>>>>>>I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, 
>>>>>>>check www.nvidia.com for th update
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>>>>>>-- 
>>>>>>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.
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>>>>=Guy
>>>>13:02:33 up 3:50, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.24, 1.12
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>>>well, I went ahead and did it anyway, the driver works fine, but I have
>>>to boot to runlevel 3 then startx manually.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.)
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>>>thanks in advance.
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>>just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, 
>>and I can use my gdm with no problem.
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>>Jim
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I took just the rhgb off, , I still have quiet and everything else 
there. boots in run level 5, no problem.