Concerning Recently I did an upgrade of Red Hat 9, finally, on the first operating system of three, on my multiple boot Pentium 3 - 1000. This box has a Nvidia Ti-4200 and a WinFast 2000 XP TV card. Wasting alot of time trying to get these running, I'd like to point out the solutions, and get a better solution for the TV-card. First the Nvidia snafu. Never have or had a problem in Fedora Core 2, my second O.S. or with SuSe with it's fantastic YAST component. Doing all the Core 2 Nvidia readme procedures yielded a X-server no start. I finally found a work around that worked for me, though I did not get as severe an error. I advise anyone with a similar problem to do solution 1 and 2 at the page http://www.dhonnlushine.com/fc3-nvidia.html : Solution 1 We now know that Nvidia fails when you start redhat graphical boot. Here's how to disable it forever: First, login as root and edit /etc/grub.conf by removing "rhgb" from the "kernel" line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda2 quiet rhgb Then, edit the /etc/rc.local file to load the nvidia driver. To do that append the line below: /sbin/modprobe nvidia Lastly, reboot the computer and you're done! Solution 2 udev is a new feature and apparently its not known to the latest nvidia linux drivers. Here's how to let fc3 know about the nvidia drivers (login as root) cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices reboot Although I did not have to remove "quiet rhgb" The other ssnafu was with my WInFast 2000 XP which Linux has always misidentified the tuner type. During installation of Core3, I let it do my tvcard, which caused the tuner type to be stuck on the value 5 when it should be 2. When using modprobe command to change it, dmesg revealed that the request was ignored. Using "rmmod bttv" and the "/sbin/modprobe card=34 tuner=2" works to set the tuner from superuser terminal in KDE. Does anyone know how to force the bootup to not load tuner=5? IT does not work if inserted in modprobe.conf and rmmod does not work in that file. Thanks in advance for a solution. __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
