-- On 2008-02-06 +0100 at 09:05:14 Beyerle Urs wrote -- > Hi, > > If you are not "afraid" of proprietary drivers you can try the NVIDIA > driver from SL contrib: > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/contrib/video/ > > Install nvidia-x11-drv and dkms. dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) will > take care that the nvidia kernel module is rebuilt after a kernel update. >
Hi, thank you very much, I did that and it works. Googling around I also discover that I got the pointer back if I suppress the "rhgb" option in grub.conf. > Configure the nvidia driver with /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and not with > system-config-display. > You mean /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig I think. P.S. On that machine (Dell Optiplex 740) I could not run your liveCD or liveDVD (4.5 , 5.0 and 5.1) After "creating /dev/entries" I got the message: fatal error occured - Data for LiveCD not found. Are you using SCSI ? -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------