Inspiron 8100: RedHat 9.0 : Display not working?.
 

I'm unable to get a X-Window Display ( Run Level-5.0 ) on my Laptop which's an Inspiron 8100 Dell Laptop. Below is the Video Card configuration

Nvidia 16MB Geforce 2Go Video Card.
15'' Monitor

Can anyone please help?. When ran on Run Level 5.0 the display just hangs. I am not able to see anyting.

During installation I did a Test on X-Windows display and accepted ( though not that great ) a 800 x 640 resolution and a Dell 1500 FP during the monitor probe

Any help appreciated.

my guess is you tried to use the nvidia driver's provided by redhat. that's pretty much a no-no (they don't work usually). if during redhat installation, you've choosen run level 5, you should always use the vesa driver for the video. choosing the dell monitor for a laptop should be fine. this should let you get into the gui at a resolution of 1024x768 and a color depth of 16. you'll then need to get drivers from nvidia's website (you want the graphics drivers for IA32). you have close to the same card as i do (mine's a 32 MB geforce2go), so i don't think you'll be able to use the newest drivers; you'll have to check out the archives. the latest drivers that worked for me was the 3123 drivers, but i'm running rh7.3, so i don't really know which driver's will work for rh9.0. i do know that for my version of redhat for the kernel i'm using, that drivers newer than 3123 do not work. from the drivers that use rpms, you need 2 drivers. the actual driver file, will have "NVIDIA_kernel" in the filename and the glx driver which will have "NVIDIA_GLX" in the filename. or you could go with the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-driver_version.src.rpm and the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-driver_version.src.rpm and rebuild them. you need your kernel source code installed and kernel headers. install the built rpms. you need to install the NVIDIA_kernel first and the NVIDIA_GLX second. after you've installed them, you'll need to configure your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. the 4191 drivers were the last rpm based installable drivers. of course you can still try the newest driver which is a *.run file that can basically only be run in text only, no X.

follow the steps and READ this if you want to use the rpm based installation packages - http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_4...xNotes4191.pdf
follow the steps and READ the README file and any other linkable document if you use the *.run of the latest driver.