ok i managed to get my system to boot with my fx 5500 card but i had to disable hotplug during boot
and i can startx but im pretty sure its using the vesa drv. what i need is some assistants running this system without hotplug/udev

what i need:

i need to get my wifi up
currently it doesnt show up under iwconfig

and i need to install my nvidia drivers and hope i can get my 3d acel



i am running the current version of slackware with the installer kernel

woops: forgot to note that i have a linksys usb wifi.. rt2500/rt2500usb i believe

update:
just installed ndiswrapper to try and get my wifi going and installed the rt2500usb then when i run ndiswrapper -l i get
rt2500usb, invalid driver!

i know for a fact this is the right driver its strait off my cd.. so im guessing its couse i dont have hotplug running to detect my usb stuff.. when i run 'lsusb' i get nothing so thats what i assume.

Hi

You should provide more info on your hardware, distro, etc. For example you may not have to use the wrapper...

About the udev / hotplug, if I'm not mistaken the the new version of udev is meant to replace hotplug and cold plug. You can check it out further on the udev wiki.

Hope this helps
G

yeah i was kind of tired and frustrated last night. ok im running slackware 11.0
and i have tryed to run many distrobutions on this pc only getting slackware to work becouse it gave the option to disable hotplug during boot while i was installing. i narrowed it down to being about my nvidia geforce fx 5500 pci 256mb ddr, becouse when i run with my onboard intel accelerator all the distro's work. i figured out it had somthing todo with udev and hotplug becouse i have tryed distro's that use both and figured out through ubuntu and slacks output during the crash. when i disabled hotplug i managed to successfully boot slack using with hotplug disabled, vesa and then also losing my usb detection, i need to get my 3d acceleration going and learn how to manage my usb components so i can use my wifi.

the hardware:

motherboard - intel 915GV
ram - 512mb ddr
cpu - 3.06ghz p4

its a emachines t5026 all of its specs can be seen here: http://www.bizrate.com/desktopcomput...84008--on.html

im pretty sure the kernel i installed was the 2.4.33.3

oh the wireless card is a linksys W54GUSBv4

Like me it sounds like you're killing system issues rather than working happily.

Ok, I'm running Gentoo and very happy. Also I have had limited success with installing nvidia via pkg manager. I only use the driver from Nvidia and don't use hotplug or coldplug. Here is my xorg.conf with xinerama just in case.

Hope this helps
G


# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"

# ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "vbe"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "bitmap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Acer AL1714"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Acer AL1714"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "1" # this disables the Nvidia splash screen
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7400"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
Option "NoLogo" "1" # this disables the Nvidia splash screen
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Did you try to blacklist the module for the integrated VGA?
in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
insted of disabling udev?
and try to load nvidia module early in boot-stage?
try and read NVIDIA's FAQ in /usr/doc, it's really complete...