Nforce2 + NV Card
 

I am running on an Nforce2 motherboard with a GeForce 3 ti500 in RedHat 8.0. When the accelerated nvidia drivers are in the XF86Config file X takes 5-10 min to start. Why is it taking so long? To help I have a XP 2400+ with 512 RAM on RedHat 8.0 with Kernel 2.4.18-14.

I'm using SuSE 8.1, XP2200+, 512M, GeForce4 MX 440 128M and seen no such problems with previous drivers or the latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run, downloaded from the NVIDIA site. If you are not on the latest, would recommend it. It has installed fine for all the new kernels i've tried.

This might be related, but I just installed the new nVidia drivers last night. I had been using just the "canned" "nv" driver with the Red Hat 9 distro until now. I am back using that until I get this resolved.

After editing XF86Config to use the "nvidia" driver, and also REMOVING the Load "dri" line as instructed by nVidia, I get only a black screen and X will not start up. Maybe I wasn't as patient as wjohnson384, but I didn't wait 10 minutes...I thought that about 2 minutes was enought to realize something was wrong.

I am using KT400 Chipset, Athlon XP 2600+ 333 FSB, nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 500.

My question pertains to, and I haven't tried this yet, because I'm getting sick of editing and booting into Run Level 3 so that I can do anything....should I try to KEEP Load "dri" in and see what happens? Or am I missing something completely?

When I go back to the "nv" driver...all is normal again.

Funny thing, and this MIGHT be significant...just before a reboot, I get the nVidia Splash screen to show up meaning to me that something is "trying" to work.

I am eager for ideas.

Also, just for information, the interface was built from Kernel source, and not downloaded.

Thanks

OK...I switched back and got patient. The new driver is working, but as the original post, there is a long delay for X to start. Wondering if there is an answer to this.....