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

[Rick Stevens]

Enrico Toniolo wrote:
> Hello to All,
> 
> first of all I advise I'm all but expert of linux o.s., and I apologise if
> my question may be trivial for someone, now my problem:
> 
> I have an IBM Intellistation A-Pro (AMD64bit Opteron) with "Linux Red Hat
> WS Enterprise Edition version 3" preinstalled. I have had to reinstall all
> the O.S. with a different scheme of partitions but, it didn't install
> properly as I am going to describe in the following:
> 
> 1. The CD 1, of 10 of the "Linux Red Hat WS Enterprise Edition" included
> with the Workstation, was given to the Workstation when it started up.
> 2. I chose the graphical mode but the installer did not detect any video
> card (what mounted in the machine is Nvidia Quadro FX 1100), so the textual
> mode started.
> 3. Then I chose to install everything, and the installation finished well,
> but
> 4. Linux startup in textual mode and doesn't exist any /etc/X11/XF86Config
> configuration file or any xf86config, XF86Setup or Xconfigurator or xf86cfg
> executable to configure it.
> 
> What I think is that after the Linux-installer didn't detect/recognize any
> video card it doesn't install XFree properly or completely, because even
> installing the video card driver from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/intellistation/nvidia-linux-x86_64-1.0-6629-pkg2.run
> 
> it wasn't possible to configure any XFree for the same reason of the point
> 4 above. Probably after installing the video card driver, XFree must be
> reinstalled, but I don't know how, and I'm not completely sure of that.

Assuming you ran the installer after you downloaded it via:

	sh nvidia-linux-x86_64-1.0-6629-pkg2.run

you must run the script "redhat-config-xfree86" as the root user.  That
SHOULD set things up.  You can check it by doing "telinit 5".  If X
comes up, you've got it set up and you need to edit /etc/inittab and
change the line that reads

	id:3:initdefault:

to read

	id:5:initdefault:

to make the system boot into X.

> When the IBM Opteron arrived, the Linux there preinstalled worked properly.
> So it means there is a way to install it properly from the 10 Installation
> CDs included and the Nvidia driver not included. This way is not described
> in the Installation Guide Book there included.
> 
> So I ask what steps to follow for a correct and complete (with XFree and
> KDE) installation of Linux 3 WS Ent. Edition.

Do what I mentioned above.
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