Red hat 7.3 and 7.2
 

Hi guys ! i was wondering if anyone has come across this problem,
installed red hat 7.3 to have a look at, when installing the nvidia drivers for my geforce2 (both GLX and kernel) i forgot to edit the x11config file (it was pretty late and i was tired)
next day when i turned my machine on, there was no display !
and i could not get to the command or failsafe to edit the x11config file.
When i reinstalled 7.2 it was the same ! (again i forgot to edit the x11config file.
When i reinstalled 7.3 and edited the x11config file it was exactly the same.
Has anyone any ideas ?

Does Rescue do anything for you? Also, in mandy (in expert mode) I can make a floppy that makes the install automated. If you can do/did something like that in RH, then you can just run the setup again, but when it gets to the X section, stop the automation and edit the file, at least then you wouldn't have to sit through the boring install again.

Actually, I'm not sure how the RH setup floppies work... but we used to be able to use Slackware boot floppies to get to the "mount" prompt and boot the kernel from there. Of course, I'm not sure if it's just going to throw you back to the GUI login... but it used to work on older versions.

You could also just let it boot all the way up... then mount the partition with your XF86Config... then it's all about whether it will allow you to mount it RW and if 'vi' will run right.

This is the same old problem we always ran into with the "real" nixes and CDE or HPVue. But there wasn't too many changes of video cards... you had HP or HP or HP... and all of then cost $500+ for the lamest of 800x600 with 16-bit.

Thank God for open source. Wonder if HP will get a clue and go Open with the IA-64 HP-UX now?? Hmmm.

I don't know what you mean by "editing the XFConfig".

Make sure you edit the lines mentioned by nvidia.com (text install guide) and that you are editing the right file ( XFConfig-4 for XFree86 > 4 ).

As i encountered this problem i had to remove any Modeline in XFConfig-4, which corresponded to the selected screen resolution.

Also make sure that the kernel module gets loaded properly by doing 'insmod NVdriver' from the console. If the module encounters any problem this is printed out in /var/log/messages.

Hope this helps

Hi
You said; after booting, the next day you had no diplay,
Well right after booting from lilo, X is not working and
there should be some readable messages flying by.
Does booting into runlevel 3 or single gives you a
display? If it does, you should be able to modify your
XFconfig-4 by hand. If not; i think, its a bootloader or kernel
related thing. (try for inst. vga=normal in lilo, or as boot-
option, after hitting esc from lilo; runlevel 3 vga=normal)
For RH 7.3 and Nvidia related stuff try this link for
some hints; www.nvnews.net/forum/