Im sorry for asking theses questions but im wanting to see if i get this to work correctly and if im doing this right. when i go to http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and click on graphics drivers>GeForce and TNT2 Theirs bunch of Linux options that i can choose from. Linux IA32 Linux AMD64 Linux IA64 FreeBSD I cannot decide which one is correct for me. -- Brittany Operating system used by Fedora Core 1.90 Test 1 Linux (Red hat) Website: http://www.redhat.com/ Downloads http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/ On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:45 -0600, Dennis Calhoun wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:33:30 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hello again. > > > >Whenever i update my files it gives me another, newer version whenever i > >reboot my machine but what the problem is that i cannot access the > >graphical desktop. it gives me the text only. how can i fix it so that > >it can work? > > If I read this right, you are speaking of a problem that you are > having whenever you update your kernel, right? > > If so and if you have a non-standard driver for your display adaptor > installed, such as nvidia, you will have to either recompile the > adaptor or remove it and install a newer version of the driver that is > already appropriate for the newer kernel. > > Every time I do a kernel update I have to recompile the nvidia driver > for my system, using text commands only, before the GUI can be > accessed using the new kernel. I do so by changing to the directory > that contains the driver file and then running it with the command > sh <filename> > where <filename> is the exact name of the driver file. > > So far this has worked well for me every time, without having to do > anything else outside of the actual installation procedures that the > driver script presents. > > Dennis C. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
