The first place I'd look for more info is at Red Hat's site.... The reason I 
say that is because it took me days to get my ATI card working - I ended up 
having to download a particular rpm from SuSE(my distro) and going through 
the motions getting X to point to that driver.

HTH

On Monday 02 July 2001 04:38, you wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Remember me, the one who asked about the 3d card recommendation?  Well,
> I did get the NVidia card with the evil closed-source drivers <g>, and
> believe it or not I'm having big time problems.
>
> This is what I need real help with from you folks: The NVidia kernel
> module is not getting properly initialized and in turn my X-Windows
> server is getting thoroughly crashed, to the point that I cannot escape
> the console into X even with Red Hat's Xconfigurator.  This is all new
> water to me so I do what I can in console, but in order to 'try again' I
> reinstall everything--which is somewhat time consuming.
>
> My questions are 1) does anyone have experience working with NVidia
> drivers and more importantly 2) how do I recover to get back into X when
> the server has crashed?
>
> Still learning,
>
> Mike
>
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