problem with XFree and video card detecting installing RH WS Enterprise Ed. 3

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Thu Feb 10 18:12:45 UTC 2005


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Enrico Toniolo wrote:
> 
>> Thank you,
>>
>> but now probably there is still an equally trivial problem: no screen
>> found. I tried with "redhat-config-xfree86 --set-vh...=" but this doesn't
>> solve the problem. Attached is the log file. I hope this maight be simply
>> fixed, and there will be no other problems.
> 
> 
> It's not seeing the video card, therefore it can't probe the monitor.
> Try it again, but use "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig".  Also, if you
> know which driver was installed, you can try tacking
> "-set-driver=drivername" to the end, e.g. if the driver was called
> "nvidia":
This will solve it, but the real problem appears to be this From your 
log file):

(EE) Unable to locate/open config file

which suggests that there is no /etc/X11/XF86Config file at all.

if you are still having problems, try

modprobe nvidia

and see if it works...
Stuart




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