I installed the nvidia driver and the reconfigured my xorg.conf. when i restart the system hangs indefinitely (so far) at the "Configuring Kernel Modules" message right after it detects hardware and just before it should go to the gui boot up screen. Any idea as to why?

At the grub menu you can hit "a". This will allow you to edit the kernel parameters. Remove the "rhgb" from that line. This will allow you to boot up. You can edit the file /etc/grub.conf so you don't have hit a everytime grub starts up. Just remove the words "rhgb" from the kernel parameters. This will get rid of graphical booting. I saw there was an update for rhgb so it might work soon where you can put that back and get a graphical boot at some point.

this is what i did:

at the grub menu hit E, then E, then at the end of the second line write: init 3
then hit the enter/return key, then B
it should boot without loading X. so that should be text-mode only
then log in as root
then type this in:
$ modprobe nvidia
$ cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
$ chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*

that should do it.


another question, I just upgraded with up2date.... i got the new kernel.. and when i tried to boot with that kernel i get the same old message that justin_p is getting... i tried the same technique but it didn't work... do i have to install the nvidia drivers again while running the new kernel?

yes. Every time you update your kernel you must re-install the nvidia driver. I believe the same is true if you upgrade the xorg files as well.