From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: nor rhl 7.x nor limbo the onboard graficcard will not be recognized on an msi-k7n420 pro mainboard,the installation hangs (no driver for nvidia geforce 2 mx) boot:linux text Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from floppy 2.boot:linux 3.starting X-server ....???? Actual Results: installation hangs Expected Results: kill x-server,installation in text-mode Additional info: NVIDIA_GLX, NVIDIA_kernel at www.nvidia.com
Any ideas Mike?
Yes, I've got an idea.... shrek-m) You've filed at least 3 bugs about this in less than 2 days, all of which you've been told that the Nvidia binary only driver is not supported. Not supported _at_ _all_. That means, in no way, is it supported, which means that it isn't supported. That means that it does not work, because we do not support it. We support the "nv" driver _ONLY_. That goes for XFree86, Xconfigurator, redhat-config-xfree86, xf86config, xf86cfg, anaconda (the installer), the kernel, and everything else. Only the "nv" driver is supported, and the support for your card, is only available using the "nv" driver. All other drivers not supplied by Red Hat... are unsupported. Roughly translated, that means we do not support them. If you DO use the Nvidia driver, instead of the "nv" driver, then when you upgrade, your X configuration will NOT be touched. This is intentional, because we do not modify a users configuration if they're using unsupported drivers, of which the "nvidia" driver is. Solution: Uninstall the Nvidia drivers completely, remove the Nvidia GLX, and kernel stuff. Reinstall XFree86 to put back the files that were destroyed by the Nvidia driver installation (libGL I believe). Edit your X config, and put the "nv" driver back. Run X configuration utilities, and it should work. As an additional note, please keep in mind that the "nvidia" binary only drivers are unsupported in all releases of Red Hat Linux, and that using them makes your whole system unsupported unless you can reproduce a problem using only the "nv" driver. Closing bug as NOTABUG.
thanks for your reply, but THE "NV"-DRIVER DOESN4T WORK for me. neither anaconda, nor any other X-Configuration-tool could bring the X-server up. all in all several days since rhl 7.2 :-( (i do prefer rhl 6.2 on i486) for me, the easyest way is to install NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX (tar, cd, no configure!, make, make install) and edit the XF86Config by myself to DRIVER "nvidia" all about in a few minutes :-) everytime i am running a X-configuration-tool the entry is changed to DRIVER "nv" and i get an error starting X with crash it4s always the same in rhl 7.2/7.3/7.393 for me its better to have a running unsupported system than ... bye quit an exit!