Installing RHEL v3 WS on an Athlon 3400+ <MORE problems>

Tue Apr 27 11:10:17 UTC 2004

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> Okay, I'm now in X and I've got the nice RHEL bluecurve screen working. I've
> uninstalled and reinstalled the kernel-source rpm and still there is no
> nvidia.h kernel header. Any ideas where I can get one from?

There's no nvidia.h file on my system either, and I DO have the nvidia
drivers installed.

What are you trying to do that is requiring that file?

> 
> Andy
> 
> P.S. It is the default 2.4.21-4-EL kernel.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cannon, Andrew [mailto:Andrew.Cannon at nnc.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 3:19 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: Installing RHEL v3 WS on an Athlon 3400+ <MORE problems>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > More problems. After having to perform a text based install (which is NOT
> > the same as the GUI despite what the manual says), I cannot get any sort
> of
> > GUI. The system must still think it is a headless system and hasn't
> > configured X, there are no nvidia kernel headers (according to the nVidia
> > driver installation pack) and I'm fast running out of ideas. I can't edit
> > XF86Config because it isn't there. 
> > 
> > Any ideas on this. If I boot into run level 5 will the system try and
> > configure X? Do I need to install X again and configure it by hand (a
> decent
> > HOWTO would be good, but they all assume that XF86config is present).
> > 
> > Andy
> 
> Dunno,... I'm running Tao Linux ( a RHEL3 clone) on my Athlon XP 2600+
> with none of the problems you report.
> 
> Just because you ran the text installer doesn't mean the installer thinks
> you're on a headless system. It would, at the very least, think you're
> on a text-only system. It should also have asked you about your graphics
> card and monitor so you could configure the X resolution. What happens
> when you type "startx" ? Did you install all the kernel source and
> kernel headers packages, and all the development packages (for C and
> C++, I mean, not necessarily python or ruby or other languages)?
> Sounds like you have an Nvidia card, so in order to install the Nvidia
> drivers you must have previously installed those packages
> 
> Then (then) latest Nvidia drivers installed perfectly on my Tao Linux
> box, I just downloaded from the nvidia site, ran the installer according
> to the instructions, and voila!
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> > When I run the installer, it actually says "No video card detected -
> Assuming headless" or something like that. It asks me no questions about
> graphics, keyboard, mouse, sound, network etc. All it does is configures the
> hard drives, gets a root password and then installs the packages I selected.
> Which is everything, but still doesn't install the kernel headers. I assume
> that the kernel headers have titles like kernel-header*, or am I being too
> naiive?
> 
> When i type startx it doesn't start X (I can't quite remember the error,
> I'll take a look in a mo), probably because there is no xf86config file
> anywhere on the system. (find . -name xf86config {with all possible
> combinations of x,X,f,F,c,C etc} reveals nothing...) If I could install the
> kernel header packages I would, but there is nothing on any of the cd's with
> kernel-header in the rpm name. 
> 
> It is an nVidia graphics card, but I still can't use it...
> 
> Andy
> 
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