On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my > > comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a > > mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx > > kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a > > blank screen and no keyboard action. > > 2.4.xx loads up and runs but apps like OO.org just kind of hang with > > transparent screens. I continue to explore. But for now this looks like > > a PITA. Anyone getting better results? > > So, I solved the problem by reinstalling 10.0 with only the 2.6.2 kernel > and then went in and edited X11 to take out the "driver "nvidia" " and > replace with "nv". So the Nvidia driver that comes with 10.0 is not > compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I am leary of going and getting the one on > the NVIDIA site cause of the boot up problems this release is having on my > comp. Anyhoo, the bugger runs. I hope some of this gets cleared up soon.
No it is. Zeb discovered that that a depmod needs to be run to get the nvidia module to load. See bug 8647 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8647 'depmod -a' should solve the problem also. -- /g
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