Installin' Nvidia drivers in RH9, i'm close...
 

Howdy :)

I've been tryin to install the latest Nvidia driver (4496) for the last few days and i think i've done it correctly now, with help from the folks at the nvnews forums.

But i still have a problem, i'm not gettin the nvidia splash screen. I have a feelin it's something simple i'm missing. Here's some info on my system, some of it not needed, but ya never know :)

ECS K7S5A
AthlonXP 2100
Visiontek GF4 Ti4600
TB Santa Cruz
WinFast 2000 XP Tuner card
Red Hat 9, completely updated

My post at Nvnews explains where i'm at I have logs attached there as well. nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19371

nvidia is loaded as the driver and any other edits that were needed are done to the XF86Config as well, like commenting out dri and GLcore. As mentioned, the driver installed, with no errors upon reboot.

Thanks for any help :)

Interesting.

XF86config looks fine.

I think that the nvidia driver will show up either as a process or as a module. Have you checked lsmod or ps -A to see if the driver is loaded correctly?

slight

This is from lsmod:

[root@pcp03823400pcs root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
agpgart 47968 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1764992 11 (autoclean)
lp 8804 0 (autoclean)
parport 36800 0 (autoclean) [lp]
autofs 13108 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis900 16492 1
sg 35852 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17720 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 106520 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35424 0
cdrom 33216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2912 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21892 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused)
usbcore 78272 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 1
jbd 51508 1 [ext3]
[root@pcp03823400pcs root]#

And here is ps -A:

[root@pcp03823400pcs root]# ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 kapmd
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 kscand/DMA
7 ? 00:00:00 kscand/Normal
8 ? 00:00:00 kscand/HighMem
10 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
11 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
15 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
73 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2611 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
2662 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
2666 ? 00:00:00 klogd
2684 ? 00:00:00 portmap
2703 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
2770 ? 00:00:00 apmd
2807 ? 00:00:00 sshd
2821 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
2841 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2850 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
2860 ? 00:00:00 gpm
2870 ? 00:00:00 cannaserver
2881 ? 00:00:00 crond
2892 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
2956 ? 00:00:00 xfs
2974 ? 00:00:00 atd
2984 ? 00:00:00 rhnsd
2990 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
2991 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
2992 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
2993 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
2994 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
2995 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
2996 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
3039 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
3040 ? 00:00:04 X
3051 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
3109 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
3120 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
3122 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
3124 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
3129 ? 00:00:00 fam
3136 ? 00:00:00 metacity
3140 ? 00:00:00 gnome-panel
3142 ? 00:00:00 nautilus
3144 ? 00:00:00 magicdev
3146 ? 00:00:00 eggcups
3148 ? 00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
3150 ? 00:00:00 rhn-applet-gui
3151 ? 00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
3159 ? 00:00:00 notification-ar
3161 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
3162 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
3163 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
3190 ? 00:00:06 mozilla-bin
3225 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
[root@pcp03823400pcs root]#

I'm guessing the driver is installed correctly, even tho i don't get the splash screen?

are you getting into the gui? if so, i would guess that the drivers are working.

what happens when you put this in your XF86Config-4 file in the Section "Device" where you defined the Driver as "nvidia"?

Option "NoLogo" "false"

Tried the NoLogo, same thing tho.

Thx :)

well if you're able to get the resolution you want and are getting into the gui, then i myself wouldn't worry about the nvidia logo. but if you want to see if everything is really up and running, try running tux racer. if it plays like poo or fscks at all (like freezes X, etc) , then there maybe some configuration you need to do.