On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Hey there, > > Here's a little before and after scenario: > > Before: > > Both end users and root could use X Windows by typing 'startx'. > > After: > > After installing the NVIDIA drivers using the shell script, two things > have happened. Firstly, the nvidia kernel module is not getting loaded > automatically. I have to modprobe it before I can even use it. > > Secondly, root is fine - startx gets me in and X is definately > accellerated (Chromium and Tux run beautifully). > > However, as a user - all I get is a heap of dialog boxes with only a > tick and cross in them. No text. Clicking through using the ticks and > crosses eventually gets me to a desktop where there is completely no > text, the icons are all the same and have no text, and the task bar is > up the top, again, no color, no text, and whatever icons ARE there have > no color. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace gets me back. > > The XFree log shows no errors. > > I'd think it was a premissions thing, but the script doesn't modify them > does it? > > Anyone seen this before? > > Regards, > Ed.
I'm using the Nvidia drivers on two RH 9 boxes successfully. They used to be RH 8.0 and before that 7.3. In other words, the drivers should be functional. You have edited the XF86Config-4 file to make the changes specified in the Nvidia docs...and there weren't any typo's...right? -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
