Redhat 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 08:51 AM, Dr. G wrote:

> 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? I can, of course, download the drivers off
> Nvidia's
> site, except I am not 100% certain how to do this.

I am not sure if you have solved this problem, but here is my take on
it:

wget
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-
3123.src.rpm
wget
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-
3123.src.rpm

As root:

rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.rpm

rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.src.rpm
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.rpm

In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:

In 'Section "Module"' (usually near the top), add:

Load    "glx"

In 'Section "Device"' (usually just past the middle), change:

Driver    "whatever"
Driver    "nvidia"

And you are 95% done (with the other 5% being screen resolution,
refresh rates, and other tweaks).

Note that I make it sound easy, but you might run into one problem:
lack of tools. By default, RedHat does not include the ability to
"--rebuild" src.RPMs. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the relevent
packages to install. I would suggest:

rpm-build
rpm-rebuilder
rpm-devel
gcc

Just remember, if you doesn't work, write! :-)

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