[tlinux-users:08242] Re: Toshiba Tecra M5 NVS 110 - NVidia display drivers for Linux RedHat 9 kernel 2.4

Thanks mate.

Appreciate you comments and advice

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Dugger" <[email protected]>
To: "David Heley" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [tlinux-users:08235] 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
> > 2.4
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
> > 1 Nov 2006
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