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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat FC3 / NVidia Issue Post 61339 by MaegRil on Wednesday 2nd of February 2005 01:13:04 PM
Old 02-02-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by sixstrings
You can just do ctrl-alt-backspace from gnome and it will kill the Xserver.

* Log in as root.

* Type:

gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
...... so on & so on etc etc
OK, sixstrings is right, his/hers solution will work.
However, the editing of grub.conf & rc.local is unecessary, IMO.

This is how I do it .......

First & most obvious, download the nvidia drivers.

Next we want to kill X
If you DON'T use the graphical login then it's easy, just logout of your X session. Done!
If you DO use the graphical login in manager, logout of your X session, and then use CTRL+ALT+F12 to give you access to the consoles. You'll then have to use ALT+F1 to bring up a console.

Right, login is as root.

Kill the X server with this command

init 3

Now you can install the nvidia drivers.
Once the driver installation is complete, edit your xorg.conf file in the same way sixstrings suggests in the previous post.
ie.
- remove Load "dri" in the module section.
and change the driver in the device section to nvidia.

But you should know that. You did read the README? Right?!

At this point, if you start X again it will work.
If you restart your machine then it will not.
Why not?
Because the nvidia module is not loaded upon start up.
Again, like sixstrings suggests, copy all instances of nvidia* that you find in /dev to /etc/udev/devices, and issue this command

chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*

Now the nvidia modules will be loaded the next time you restart your machine.

And that's it! Smilie


Want to know more about udev? Check out these links:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/util...plug/udev.html

Does anyone know if nvidia is going to fix this issure?
 

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