Redhat 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200

>
> \_ SMTP quoth Dr. G on 11/15/2002 08:51 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ I recently dual booted RH 8 on my laptop, but it keeps giving me errors
when
> \_ starting xwindows.
> \_
> \_ I was reading some documentation that RH (nor namdrake) are able to
properly
> \_ recognize the Nvidia Geforce4 60 64MB video chip..Is this something
anyone
> \_ has heard of before?
>
> The device id information probably hasn't crept into the relevant
> kernel config/setup files.

Yeah, it would appear so. It only says geforce 4 (generic).


> \_ I can, of course, download the drivers off Nvidia's
> \_ site, except I am not 100% certain how to do this.
>
> They have a faq and stuff; it's not terribly hard unless you're doing
> odd things with the kernel and glibc, and even then, it's only a
> matter of being dedicated.
>
> David

My whole problem is trying to figure out how to download the kernel and GXL
RPM off nvidia's site from the console and installing them. Ah well,
education time, heh.