[tlinux-users:08241] Re: Toshiba Tecra M5 NVS 110 - NVidia display drivers for Linux RedHat 9 kernel 2.4

Thats an interestingly old distro to be using on a laptop.  My
personal suggestion is to find a newer distro, but maybe you have
financial, technical or application requirements.

The first thing to check to see that the nvidia kernel module is
loaded. "lsmod | grep nvidia" should report back a line saying
something like "nvidia  3543643 12" if its loaded.  If not, you'll
need to load with "modprobe nvidia" (I think, can't remember exactly
if that's the command for 2.4 kernels).

Next, check that the devices section to xfree86 is correct.  Pretty
much just change "vesa" to "nvidia". If you don't need 3d you MIGHT be
able to use "nv" here.

It may be the case that your kernel is using a kernel frame buffer for
virtual terminals, which would be problematic. Usually people who do
that just notice that switching to a vt crashes all video, but I don't
think most people use startx either.  You may have to rebuild the
kernel without framebuffer support in order to appease the nvidia
module.

Justin Dugger

On 10/31/06, David Heley <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Toshiba Tecra M5  NVS 110 - NVidia display drivers for Linux RedHat 9 kernel
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> Does anyone have any experience with this above configuration ?  We cant get
> the X-Windows video working with the NVidia drivers. We just get a black
> screen when we try to run the # startx command.  The VESA drivers work fine,
>  but we need the NVidia drivers to work for a specific Linux application
> that uses the NVidia drivers.
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> 1 Nov 2006
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