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09-16-2003, 01:53 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bangalore, India
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 19
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X Windows Problems
I have Installed Red Hat 7.3 on AMD Athlon XP 2200, 256 DDR, Nvedia Graphics card.
The problem is I am unable to start the X Server. Whenever I start with the x server, the machine get struck up. I have even tried with setting the VESA driver. But still I face the same problem.
What might be the remedy for the problem.
Please help me.
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09-16-2003, 02:43 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Belarus
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0
Posts: 2
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See log (/var/log/XFree86.0.log).
If you can't understand the log, post the last part of the log to this thread.
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09-16-2003, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
Posts: 1,403
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For all Nvidia Graphics cards, you can use the generic driver.
In the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, under the video section, set the driver to nv
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