[vox-tech] X server help

[Jeff DeFay]

I have a RH8.0 machine with a graphics card using a newer NVIDIA chip 
and also have had
problems with X with each kernel upgrade; the secret is that NVIDIA has 
their own drivers.
I'm at the 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and had to use the 
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm  & NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm driver 
patches from NVIDIA to get things working properly.
They have pretty good instructions on their web site.   I've learned 
that 'rpmbuild --rebuild' with the *.src.rpm files is a better method 
than using the precompiled rpms.

Try the URL:    http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp  and 
select the 'Linux IA32 Display Drivers ' link.

Regards,
Jeff DeFay
jfdefay@acm.org


Jennifer Stickel wrote:

>Hi all,
>    I am having technical difficulties with XFree86.  A while back, I
>tried to update my video drivers.  It worked for the setup that I had
>but not with any of the update that came out (I am using RH 8.0).  So
>recently I tried to get my video card to work with the newer kernel
>version available.  Now I have lost all ability to use X.  I tried
>uninstalling my drivers and it won't rebuild the newest source rpm.  I
>then tried downloading the newest version of XFree86 binaries.  They
>seem to install correctly and the configuration script runs, but doesn't
>make my mouse work properly.  Then when I type startx at the prompt, it
>tries to start X but then I get the error message
>
>PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"
>No core pointer
>
>Fatal server error:
>Failed to initialize core devices
>
>Can anyone help me to figure out how to get X back and running on
>machine?
>
>Machine Specs:
>Dell Optiplex
>512 MB RAM
>NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 video card
>
>RedHat 8.0 / Windows 2000 Pro dual boot
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Jennifer Stickel
>
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