AAA!! I installed nVidia drivers on Red Hat 8 and it can't init display!

orange400 · 03-16-2003, 10:39 PM

Or try vim [filename]

That's what I used.

Type : to enter commands. q quits, write writes ... that's really all I know

orange400 · 03-17-2003, 11:11 AM

Well the 3D accelleration is working anyways, I can tell after running Tux Racer! Very crisp and smooth! But is there a possibility that I can get my nVidia card going with my new kernel?

orange400 · 03-18-2003, 05:25 PM

orange400 · 03-18-2003, 11:32 PM

The new kernel has USB MIDI support and I own a USM MIDI keyboard ... is there any way I can get the drivers working for the newer kernel?

bsteele.com · 03-20-2003, 01:08 AM

thank guys,

using this newsgroup i got my nvidia geforce 4200 running on redhat 8.0.
hw: dell dimension 8200

additional hints my system required (in tcsh):

setenv CC gcc
setenv IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH 1

obviously the second suggestion here is a little dangerous but it was
complaining about different variations of gcc 3.2 so i took the chance.
all seems fine after 24 hours.... even power save works now.

i couldn't get the src.rpm's to work so i used the tar.gz

bob