Are you installing the source RPMs?
There are instructions in the README for both. Download the source and
install those. When you install RedHat, don't use a graphical login for
X and make sure you install the source for the kernel.....you will need
those header files when you recompile.
If you don't use a graphical login then there is no need to reinstall
after a bogus X configuration.
So to summarize:
1) Install RedHat, with source, and no graphical login
2) Download source RPMs for nvidia drivers
3) Follow readme (which has you install and compile the drivers, then
edit your xconfig)
4) run startx
You said you were using a Geforce MX card, right?
Michael J. Schweppe 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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