nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:30 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> 
> >on that line in grub, do I remove everything after the kernel version?
> >
> >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> >
> >as in after the .667?
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:07 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:03 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:23 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Greg,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I've seen this same issue on a Dell Latitude C840 with the new Nvidia
> >>>>>6629 with a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and FC2.  I don't think it's specific
> >>>>>to FC3T*.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Best,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Steve
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:59 -0600, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Thanks for the info.  The new 6629 nvidia driver works on my Dell 8100 
> >>>>>>notebook, yet DPMS still doesn't work.  It used to work in FC2.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>The 6629 driver does NOT work on my Compaq R3000z.   The previous 
> >>>>>>version did work ok but 6629 has a majorly messed up screen upon starting X.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Anyone else having troubles with the NVIDIA driver on an R3000Z??
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Jim Martin wrote:
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I just installed the new 6629 nvidia driver in FC3 and it worked fine, 
> >>>>>>>check www.nvidia.com for th update
> >>>>>>>         
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>              
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>-- 
> >>>>>>Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
> >>>>>>greg @ gulik.org
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>well I'm glad you posted this, I have a C840 and was just getting ready
> >>>>to try the nvidia instead of nv, think I'll hold off... thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>-- 
> >>>>=Guy
> >>>>13:02:33 up 3:50, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.24, 1.12
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>well, I went ahead and did it anyway, the driver works fine, but I have
> >>>to boot to runlevel 3 then startx manually.
> >>>
> >>>I would prefer to have my gdm back with my nice gnome login, but if I
> >>>change my runlevel back to 5 then I get no joy, lot's of strange errors.
> >>>
> >>>so I can't put runlevel 5 back in inittab...any ideas what I could do to
> >>>get my gdm back with the new drivers? (they are nice btw, all my gl
> >>>stuff is very fast now.)
> >>>
> >>>thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, 
> >>and I can use my gdm with no problem.
> >>
> >>Jim
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> I took just the rhgb off, , I still have quiet and everything else 
> there. boots in run level 5, no problem.
> 

ok, here goes...

-- 
=Guy
22:33:06 up 1:13, 1 user, load average: 1.97, 1.34, 1.08