GeForce FX 5200 and Redhat 9

Apparently they are not playing well.... I try to install Redhat 9 and it detects a standard VESA card, but there is no output on my monitor....only text mode works......

Anyone have any suggestions/ had the same problem?

I'm having this problem too, just posted a message on it. You can get it to install in text mode, but as soon as xwindows boots you get a blank screen.

I got it, here is what you do.

1) Did the CTRL+ALT+TAB+F2 and logged in and edited the /etc/inittab and changed it to single user mode, 1. It's listed as 5.

2) Rebooted

3) Downloaded the NVIDIA drivers and installed them.

4) Edited the XF86Config file like it said (removed the LOAD "DRI"

5) Re-Edited the /etc/inittab file and changed it back to 5

6) Rebooted and presto...it works.

Also, NVIDIA has a killer webpage that has many flavors listed here http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261

You will also need these for laptops running NVidia

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that I was having the same problem, but your post helped me fix it.

Thanks nocwiz.

My System:
MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R
P4 2.4c 800Mhz FSB
1GB DDR Ram
MSI NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb

Mark P.
mpearce@lanlocator.com
http://www.lanlocator.com

Hi there. I do not understand any of what you have just said nocwiz. I have done CTRL+ALT+TAB+F2 when the monitor shutted down. But that showed me a flashing line which flashed quite rapidaly and i was not able to typeb or do anything.

So how can I get into text mode to login into root? What am I doing wrong?

type this as root xf86config it will ask a few things than X will work.

Have a nice day.

i have the same trouble as Specologic

also how do i log into root when it loads into that a black screen?

To fix your video / screen problems. Take a look at this thread.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=92073

Thanks i got ever thing working now

Ok...this is my second Red Hat 9 installation. The first one I scrapped because I changed around my partitions to give more room to Red Hat and no room for Windows. = )

The first time I took the advise mentioned in this thread and my video was working swell. After doing another Red Hat installation, I did the same thing for the video (changed inittab, installed drivers, edited XF86Config, changed inittab back). X works fine...but when I try to play Army Operations it doesn't do anything. At first I thought it was something with the game installation. But then I noticed that many of my screensavers would not load. Get the message:

XLib: Extension "GLX" missing on display ";0.0"

There's more to the message so if anyone needs it let me know. But I just can't figure out why the same thing did not work twice with the exact same distro, kernel, drivers, etc.

Oh, also an NVIDIA splash screen used to come up before X loaded. Now it does not.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

ok i followed all thes directions, and when i try to edit the XF86Config it tells me permission denied???? plz help

I had already had some nvidia drivers installed for my previous card (geforce2). I downloaded the latest drivers just before i installed the new card.

plugged the new card in, moved to runlevel 3, installed the latest drivers, then i started having problems.

So what i did earlier today (which *seems* to have my system up and running in X for the moment) was to mess around with my X config file, then tried to start X. Bless its heart, it told me something was wrong, and that it was going to try to fix it.

So i let it write its own config. For the moment, it seems to be working. I will have to try installing the latest nvidia drivers again when i get off work, and hopefully there will not be a problem this time.

I did notice in the rh9 video setup that the fx series of cards are not listed for nvidia. but it did have nvidia generic ddr, which is what mine is set to at the moment.

i'll post back with my results of upgrading the drivers as soon as i can.

no luck

just got home and tried things over again.

first, booted, init3, uninstalled the current drivers
then reinstalled the latest drivers
changed my config file (added driver ¨nvidia¨ load ¨glx¨ remove ¨dri¨)
saved, rebooted, and up it comes
but if i try to do ANYTHING, it instantly locks up my display...

this is starting to suck badly... i had no problems with my old geforce2pro.

does anyone have any success stories, or any ideas on how to get this up and running?

(btw, my hangups only stop interaction on the desktop. i cannot escape out of the screen after it locks up, but the mouse still works okay (?) ). so here i am. please, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Another note,

output of lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0311 (rev a1)

this is odd, isnt it?

output of scanpci:
pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0311
nVidia Corporation Device unknown

I even went so far as to remove any trace of a video card in hwconf, in the hopes that kudzu might pick it up on reboot. but nada. nothing.

sigh...