On 7/24/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >Hi folks! > >Having an oldish GeForce 4 type video card, I tried to get 3D acceleration, > so (after some inquiry on the nVidia website) I did > ># yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx > >Yum took the package from Livna, took the appropriate xorg-x11-driver file, >installed them both successfully. I verified the xorg.conf file that was >modified in the process, and it looks perfectly sane to me. But, after > startx all I get is a blank dark screen, and all I can do is to press the > reset button. That's an older release, current is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run, installed by directly executing the file during bootup. It Just Works(TM). Get it from the nvidia site, much fresher stock.
100.14.11 doesn't support his GPU. He needs to use 1.0-9639.
