Re: nvidia & 2009.2

John Rye wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:12:01 -0400
> dlwiggers wrote:
> 
>> John Rye wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:57:28 -0400
>>> dlwiggers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I never would have believed it.  I admit I've read about it, but
>>>> there's nothing like personal experience.
>>>>
>>>> I attempted to install 2009.1 and 2009Spring in a new box over the
>>>> weekend.
>>>>
>>>> 2009.1 x won't run.  I get a flashing dash on the top left and nothing
>>>> else.  Boots in runlevel 2, though.
>>>>
>>>> 2009Spring, ditto
>>>>
>>>> 2009 84, ditto
>>>>
>>>> 2009 dual, ditto
>>>>
>>>> What's interesting is:
>>>>
>>>> Knoppix boots with great splashes of beauty, as does Redhat, Ubuntu,
>>>> and Kubuntu,  all of which I downloaded out of frustration and none
>>>> of which I am seriously thinking of keeping on an active box.
>>>>
>>>> The box is a dual processor 64 bit 3500amd, with 4g memory and a 1.5tb
>>>> sata drive.  The display is an antique flat screen, but I haven't
>>>> gotten there yet,anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what to change to stop the frilly graphic startup?  I
>>>> just want to watch the okay's scroll up to login, the way I always
>>>> did, then play with mcc, I suppose, or use it to serve Apache until
>>>> mdv gets the graphic act together.
>>> I think you can strike the 'esc' key to clear the splash screen -
>>> however I found this to be a hit'n'miss affair :-)
>>>
>>> I edited the boot parameters in lilo and removed the 'splash=silent"
>>> parameter to get around the splash screen.
>>>
>>> One workaround would be to start in failsafe mode and edit /etc/inittab
>>> line which reads "id:5:initdefault:" and change the 5 to a 3. This will
>>> allow you to get to a console screen from where you can sort out your
>>> graphics problem(s).
>>>
>>> You don't tell us what your video card is so it's bit difficult to
>>> diagnose. 
>>>
>>> John NZ
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>> tnx John & all
>>
>> nvidia, recent is all I know right now.  8500? maybe.  It's part of the
>> mb.
>>
>> Since my obvious frustration, I have so far gotten to:
>> 1. Installed 2009.1dual
>> 2. Gotten rid of all boot candy but the very first (splash screen?) and 
>> tnx John for the fix to that one.
>> 3. Connected finally
>> 4. Set update places, etc.
>> 5. Installed xfce with urpmi.
>>
>> Graphic installation from mcc says that the nvidia card isn't working, 
>> but has allowed me a rudimentary icewm start with a generic driver.
>>
>> I haven't tried xfce yet.
>>
> 
> What does 'lspci | grep VGA' return?
> 
> John NZ
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