On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 01:00, Mathew Brown wrote: > Hello Everyone, I am Trying to install Fedora Core 2 on my machine, > I've tried Suse as well and i get the same problem. As soon as I > update the video card driver, i get nothing but a friggen shell > prompt. It won't load the GUI when I install the new Drivers, Not > being much impressed with suse i'm hoping you guys can help me get > this machine to be a linux BOX. > > My machine is, > Asus a7n8x-e Deluxe MB > AMD Barton 2500+ > 768 megs pc3200 Crucial Ram > ATA 133 40 Gig W.D. or quantum, not sure but it's one of the two > Giga-byte (Nvidia Chipset) fx5200 128 meg Video card 8x AGP > pioneer 8xdvd-rw > Lg DVD rom > LG 52x32x52 CD-Rw > and yeah the floppy drive. > > Any and ALL help is greatly appriciated > Hi Mathew, if by updating the video card driver you mean you installed the closed-source nvidia driver, make sure you update /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as per the nvidia readme. Xorg replaces XFree86 in FC2. If that's not what you mean or if you already did this please post *detailed* information as to what you have already done and we will do our best to help you. Wayne Steenburg
