plan9 Posted March 7, 2003 Share Posted March 7, 2003 http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_di...y_ia32_1.0-4191 I made a dual boot system on my Athlon XP 2200+ with Geforce 4 Ti 4600 video card running Windows XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 8. I configured the dual boot using the LILO boot loader. All that is fine. However, I am having problems getting the NVIDIA drivers installed. I consulted the nvidia website. I read the TEXT file install instructions. I ran NVCHOOSER to see which GLX and which kernel drivers I should install. It said to use the following NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0.athlon.rpm using rmp -ivh I also did this in Text mode, not in X windows. In addition I edited the XFREE86CONFIG got rid of load "dri", there wasnt a load "glcore" to get rid of as the instructions suggested. In addition, I and load "nvidia" in place of the "nv" Now I can't get back into X windows, and I got a module error when trying to rpm the above drivers. Has anyone had any experience in dealing with Red Hat 8 and Nvidia? I have succesfully done this with a dual boot PIII and RH 7.3 in the past. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcronin Posted March 7, 2003 Share Posted March 7, 2003 I don't use RH 8 but did you remember to load the GLX module in your XF86Config? Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9 Posted March 7, 2003 Author Share Posted March 7, 2003 yes sir! ...didnt work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted March 7, 2003 Share Posted March 7, 2003 what module? nvidia's? is it a version mismatch error? If it simply can't find it reinstal with -f option (force). I had this work once when upgrading kernels around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9 Posted March 7, 2003 Author Share Posted March 7, 2003 greets! these are the errors: xsetroot: unable to open display xrdb: cant open display xset: unable to open display ksplash: cannot connect to xserver kdeinit: aborting $DISPLAY is not set warning: connect() failed connection refused ksmserver: cannot connect to xserver error: cant open display error: cant contact kdeinit NVIDIA(0): failed to initialize the nvidia kernal module fatal IO error 104 Connection reset by peer on X server ":0.0" I did try to force install, but tells me it is already installed... *grumble* thanks for the feedback so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 can't remember the syntax right now but... try -if (force install) or -uf (force upgrade). You might have typed something wrong because the force option is there to bypass the "already installed" warning good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Hey forum guy with flying pig avatar, Did you check the "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" file to see which XF86config file is used to start the X server? Perhaps you edited the wrong config file? If you edited the wrong config file, please make a copy of the correct config file before editing. You have fun now because I know how fun it is to edit the XF86config/XF86config-4 file!!! Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 You have fun now because I know how fun it is to edit the XF86config/XF86config-4 file!!! Hey, not fair! I was going to say that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsbt Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Hi, Which version of the Kernel are you running? I'm running 2.4.18-26.8.0 and I had buildproblems with the NVidia Source RPM. I got fed up with RPM and downloaded the tarballs and compiled from scratch. Mats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Hi,Which version of the Kernel are you running? I'm running 2.4.18-26.8.0 and I had buildproblems with the NVidia Source RPM. I got fed up with RPM and downloaded the tarballs and compiled from scratch. Mats Source RPMs are evil! Especially in combination with RedHat 8.0's RPM/packaging system, which has it's pro's aswell though... Try the good old gzipped tarball. It worked without any problems for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkocov Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 I had the exact same problem under Mandrake 8.2. The solution is to manualy add the nvidia kernel module to the module config files. Here's my /etc/modules file: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. joydev nvidia scsi_hostadapter Here's my /etc/modules.conf file: alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia alias eth0 ne2k-pci I think that all you need to do is add the lines where nvidia is mentioned to the coresponding files on your system. I hope this solves your problems. Goran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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