[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

Brian Medley bpm-list-wplug at 4321.tv
Tue Mar 25 22:15:41 EST 2003


On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:55:15PM -0500, Tom McCullough wrote:

> until X starts up.  now the Chaintech geforce4 ti 4200 video card that 
> was working fine with RH 8.0 and the nvidia drivers (from the nvidia 
> site) goes to a black raster.  the monitor is getting sync signals, a 
> faint outline is visible at the edges of the screen, and two brief 
> flashes occur.  I can blindly type <ctl>+<alt>+f1 and my username 

My guess is that the nVidia drivers need to be re-compiled for the kernel
you're using.

> Can I pass a runlevel 1 to the kernel during boot so X doesn't start?  I 
> am using grub.
> I tried init=1 in the boot line, no luck.

Put just a 3 at then end of the boot line.

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