Paul, Here I sit, almost dead in the water. Confident that I could run emacs at the command prompt outside X (I'm writing now with emacs-rmail, but have lost X altogether), I went ahead and installed the two rpm files and edited my XF86Config-4 file. The result was loss of access to my X server. I tried but failed to back out of the driver installation by reverting to the old config file with its nv driver.
RPM Installation suggested a possibly conflicting MESA or stale nVidia distribution, but I have neither. libglx.a, etc., files renamed to xxx...rpmSAVE. I don't know whether a recovery of my old set up would require renaming those file to their original names as well as reverting to the old configuration file. When I went to start X, I got errors that nvidia had failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module. Indeed, running lsmod does not report it, although I checked with rpm to verify the driver installed (rpm verifies the NVIDIA_kernel version number). If I tried insmod nvidia (or nVidia, NVidia, NVdriver, etc.) it says driver not found. There's nothing that looks like an nvidia driver in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions. The /dev files are present, though. I tried running Xconfigurator. It sees my GeForce3 card, but can't probe it (it did so originally), probably because of no loaded driver. So manual configuration of the card fails. I don't know the exact driver name I should be using, nor am I certain of where it should be located, and why insmod does not see it. I've no clue where to begin. I sent the log file off to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Until they reply (if they reply), I'm unable to do much work. If you have the patience, I'd like to know the name and location of the nvidia driver file so that I might verify its presence and perhaps give insmod a hand. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
