Newbie - display driver problem
 

Hello peeps, absolute total UNIX and Linux newbie here, limit of my current knowledge is being able to use VI lol :eek: :o

I have installed Red Hat 9.0 ok and can get into the main window no problem. Decided to have a go at updating the video driver to try and get something better than 800x600... Got the latest Linux drivers for my MSI Gforce FX 5500 from NVidias website, followed the instructions for editing the XF86Config file and it was all going well until I tried to restart X, I get the following error....

No devices detected

Fatal Server Error:
No screens found

I have read as much as I can and am now totally stuck! From what it seems from others problems I need to show you my XF86Config file, well I have checked that Load "glx" was present and it was - didnt find Load "drv" or Load "GLcore" as the Nvidia readme said I may or may not and only thing I changed from the bare install was

Driver "vesa" to Driver "nvidia"

Havent specified a monitor to use, is this neccessary? From what I have read it looks like I need to check if "agpart" is loading and it isnt, tried running modprobe agpart and got the following error

modprobe: Cant locate module agpart

Can anyone offer me any ideas?

Cheers

Skip :study:

Hi boosted_skip,


I had a simuler problem once, my sulotion was to add 'nvidia' to the modprobe file, i have forgot where this file is located tho, anyone else know?

GlenX

Thanks for the reply Glen. I can run "modprobe nividia" and it doesnt give me any errors and when I check it with "lsmod" I can see it at the top of the list.... Its only modprobe agpart that doesnt run, and as I have an AGP card I guess that needs to run? :confused:

Really done know what to do! :scratch:

Bump - can anyone help me?? :newbie:

The module you need is agpgart (note the extra 'g').

Being a bit thick, where do I get that from? Or is it already installed?

Should already be there, AFAIK. Try `modprobe agpgart`.