nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:50 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:30 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>>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.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >you da man, thanks.
> >interesting though, that I get my gdm back, but the fedora graphics
> >never came back after loading nvidia's real drivers.
> >
> >thanks my friend, though, I'm good with this.
> >
> >  
> >
> You are welcome, and the Fedora graphics is what you just took off ( 
> rhgb=Red hat graphical Boot) for some reasons does not like the nvidia 
> driver. go figure :-)
> 

If you still want rhgb, you can tell rhgb to use the xorg driver. Just
create an alternate xorg.conf (with the driver set to "nv") and copied
to /etc/rhgb/xorg.conf. This way, rhgb will always work (assuming the
xorg drivers works ) and you can use the nvidia driver for the standard
gdm/X session. 

Regards,
-- 
Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>