nvidia nforce video card not detected

siddharth · 10-14-2003, 06:01 AM

Hi i am just now shifted from mandrake 9.0 to redhat 9.0 . Well the installation has been successful expect tht i cannot run my X . To put it simply no graphical interface. Well the actual problem lies in the fact tht redhat detected my video card as Nvidia GeForce 2 MX Generic whereas it is Nvidia Nforce .
On running the redhat-config-xfree86 i can get a list of video cards tht it supports but nforce is no where to be seen . i have even installed the nforce drivers for redhat 9.0.
Plz advice wht can i do ... working in text mode is fun (like compiling this in lynx) but it can be a pain for a newbie like me .
Can i ever run redhat 9.0 on my box or is it going back to man 9.0
Plz help me out...

arunshivanandan · 10-14-2003, 06:14 AM

There is no nforce video card.nforce is a chipset.I assume you are having one of those ASUS motherboards(like a7n266,which are quite popular in india.)For the nvidia video display driver,checkout my sig.(get the drivers for IA32).
about X,what is the error you are getting??did you try startx from command mode??
BTW,why did you switch over to RH??Drake is much better that RH interms of userfriendlyness and multimedia support.
--arun.
"Mera Bharat Mahan"

siddharth · 10-14-2003, 06:54 AM

Hi
thanks for your reply .... well i solved tht problem but now theres a new 1 coming up ...

i cannot see my windows partitions (3 of them all FAT32) from linux .. wht to do ??

Anticipating an early response

Siddharth

arunshivanandan · 10-14-2003, 07:03 AM

mount them!.

to mount D drive
1.make a directory like

Code:

mkdir /mnt/D

(or whatever name)

2.find out the corresponding device drive with 'fdisk -l'.

Code:

fdisk -l

3.mount the windows partition like

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/D

assuming that hda5 is D.(you will get this from 'fdisk -l')

that is it.
also,you can use the automount feature.just edit /etc/fstab.you will see many of you linux partition entries there.just add a similar line there.and change the filesytem type from ext3(i guess) to vfat,corresponding device drives,and mount directory.(eg, / must be replaced with /mnt/D etc.)
and from command line,run 'mount -a'.and then you will be able to access your fat32 partition D.in the next boot up,it will be automatically mounted.similarly for other partitions.
--arun.
"Mera Bharat Mahan"