[plug] GeForce Video card question

[Chris Griffin]

Dennis,

I have finally managed to get to the stage of being able to install RedHat 
7. Trouble is, as you indicate, it fails the install of X during the video 
card set up.
It seemed to detect the card OK, but when it goes to start the xserver to 
test it, it fails and I get no further having to quit out of that phase. It 
could be that I am selecting the wrong option(s). The server I selected was 
SVGA as nothing else seemed to fit the bill. Is this correct?
Could you give me a blow by blow (just for the video related parts) of the 
set up sequence for this?
All the info in the doco from NVIDIA tell me how to install their driver 
but nothing on how to get to that stage with the right software installed.

Regards,
Chris


At 08:46 6/02/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Chris.
>
>Go to www.evil3d.net <http://www.evil3d.net>  (Thanks again Hooli ;-)), and
>read the article on installing the drivers for all Nvidia cards (including
>Geforce2mx) for your particular distribution. None of the distros fully
>config the Nvidia cards for 2D and 3D during installation, just basic 2D.
>
>Then, install Quake 3 Arena (demo or full version), run it and then pick
>your jaw up from off the ground.
>
>Dennis.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Chris Griffin [SMTP:chrisg at doladns.dola.wa.gov.au]
>Sent:   Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:33 AM
>To:     plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject:        [plug] GeForce Video card question
>Importance:     High
>
>Well, I finally did it. I went out last night and brought myself a faster
>video card (faster than a S3 Virge).
>As expected Linux did not come up so I started to re-install my RedHat 6.2.
>Trouble is what option do I select for the video card?
>It is a GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP card. Model # CMX2A-TV that says it is powered
>by the nVIDIA GeForce2 MX 256-bit 3D graphics engine.
>It also says "Full compliant support for OpenGL 1.2 for all Windows
>operating systems and Linux". They give you all the instructions on
>installing it on Windoze, but nothing for Linux (when will they learn).
>
>Could someone please help?
>
>Regards
>Chris