I've installed Redhat9.1 on my laptop without any problems (other than sound, but ok) and it's 2 years old.
My friend had just bought a new computer, it has a Gainward GeForce4 MX video card and an nforce2 Asus A7?8x motherboard. He has it installed, but wasn't able to do it via the gui install and when the machine tries to start X, it just goes blank.
I had a similar problem getting gentoo to install, but that's only because I never had drivers installed at that time, of course.
I was expecting Redhat 9.1 to be able to sort out an Nvidia graphics card on itself? Am I wrong about this?? Or does he really need to download the drivers and manually configure the XF86Config file?

Yes, he needs to manually do it. The nvidia drivers are closed source, so most of your download versions of distros will not include them in the download iso's.

If he/she/you purchased the copy of RH from RH themselves, it may contain the closed source drivers (it would most likely mention this on the box).

HTH

Cool

Thanks for that.
The CD's are just the first 3 that I gave him, that were downloaded.
I remember there being issues with kernel sources, and they have to match or something, I hope that won't cause a problem. I'm going to do a bit of research to find out what is needed to get it working OK, if anyone can give me a tip (such as if the kernel sources/headers or whatever Nvidia driver install needs are on the CD?), that would be nice.

Maybe this would help?
just did a simple search

Complete Idiot's guide to Nvidia drivers
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ghlight=nvidia

I'm supporting acjt on this. I'm thinking that having an NVidia card installed also causes problems with the Mandrake 9.1 install. On Mandrake, when trying graphical install, the screen blanks and the scroll and caps lock keys blink.

I've had this exact problem on my Gateway (both the RedHat problem mentioned above and the Mandrake problem).

Does anyone have any more ideas on how to get NVidia drivers communicating with either linux graphical installer?

Thanks,
Zonaxx

Are you by any chance trying to use the DVI port on your video card? I remember an issue a while back that the installer wasn't too friendly with the DVI on some cards. Try either using the standard VGA connector, or just doing a text install. The graphics will work again once the install is completed, its just a problem in the installer.

And i don't heart something about rh9.1 lol

He reinstalled with Text mode, which is OK I guess. Pretty crap for these days, but oh well. The install was done with kernel headers which are on the CD - good.
init 3. Put CD in and copy the nvidia drivers to the hard disk, install them via the .run file.
Graphics work fine now. Problem with the firstboot program though, should be a way to turn that off from the bootup I reckon. Now to get sound going, another post for that