On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:10, Lew Bloch wrote: > > I get a message saying that rivfb must be > > disabled in the kernel > > Actually, it says that rivafb must not be enabled, not quite the same thing. Ok It is my home PC so I can't remeber exactly, Thanks > > It seems that rivafb is a loadable driver, not usually loaded unless you > have that card. I've been using the same NVIDIA driver on the same Fedora > distro with no problems, presumably because Linux never feels the need to > load the rivafb driver. > > Unlike some Linux-heads, I do not relish the notion of building my own kernel > over every little thing. agreed :-> > It pleases me when these things work as well as the > nvidia driver did. > > > But if I run "X" from the command line in runlevel 3 to test, it works > > but then my prompt doesn't come back when I exit X. > > Try "Ctl-Alt-F1" after you exit X. Text mode Linux runs in multiple > terminals; I know, thats what I am trying to explain, > Fedora seems to set up 6 by default. X goes into the seventh > terminal, but leaves you there when you exit. Thats what I do, and it looks very broken, I'll explain: So I boot init 3 and install the driver, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. replace nv with nvidia and add a line to the bottom of the Drivers section Option "NvAGP" "1" as it is the only one that works out of the 4 options. (By the way I had no problems testing the same system with MDK9 / 10 or RHEL3.) I run X get a black gui and pointer. ctl-alt-backspace to quit. now the console is buggered its just black, but the console mouse pointer works. Press enter a few times and I get a bash prompt absolute right side center of the screen. OK type reset get the same. tried ctrl-alt-f1 /f2 /f3 /f4 .... same on all type init 6 nothing I hit the reset switch reboot and and boot into gnome and all is fine no problems. logout and login again no problems. ctl-alt-fn and the consoles are unusable. -- -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people criticise, curse and fail.
