On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >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. I missed that part, sorry. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
