Redhat 7.0 and Geforce2MX Problems

[vOlTaGe]

I am new to linux and setup a box taht has a geforce2mx as the video card. i tried to install the new XFree86 4.0.2 and it didnt work. I also tried to install the NViddia drivers and taht as well did not work. My CLI works fine and dandy but I would like my X server to work as well. So does anybody know how to install the items on RedHat 7.0.

John Forsythe

 

[SUOrangeman]

evil3d.net prolly has an article. too lazy to link.

-SUO

 

[perry]

I gave up trying and installed RedHat 7.0.90 a few weeks ago. Worked like a charm. Wolverine was released last week I think, the latest RedHat beta release. It should work for ya.. If you're on dialup, find a friend with DSL/cable and have him/her download and burn the ISOs for ya.

I tried upgrading to 4.0.2 by hand and failed after failing to get the NVIDIA drivers to work.

 

[ddiccico]

Try wolverine, I've installed it one one system, and it seems stable. upgrading xfree86 to 4.02 is a pain. The installer in wolverine is a lot faster too. a 600-700MB install used to take about 30 minutes, I did a 1.3 gig install in wolverine in about the same time. It also includes firewall setup in the installer.

 

[Quaggoth]

Search my old posts. There will be a reply that points to evil3d.net. Go there, that fixed it for me. Basically, I had to recompile the kernel to include the nvidia_kernelxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gz drivers, and the nvidia_GLX-xxxxxx.gz stuff (That last replaces MESA). It's not TOO difficult to do, and the directions were very clear. Hope that helps.