nvidia driver kernel 2.6.9 667

[Jim Martin]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 01:04 -0400, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:50 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
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>>>W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:30 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
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>>>>>>>just a thought, but did you take rhgb off your grub menu? I did that, 
>>>>>>>and I can use my gdm with no problem.
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>>>>>>>Jim
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>>>>>I took just the rhgb off, , I still have quiet and everything else 
>>>>>there. boots in run level 5, no problem.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>thanks my friend, though, I'm good with this.
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>>>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 :-)
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>>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. 
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>>Regards,
>>-- 
>>Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>
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>see? now I *have* to try this...
>thanks, will let you know! :)
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Works! I love it when even I learn something new!! Thank you!

BaVinic