On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 11:06 -0700, Jim Bevier wrote:
I tried the i386 live CD and i386 install DVD. I had a Nvidia Riva
TNT card
in one system (I was running RedHat 7.1, don't ask), and it could not
start
X during startup. I tried vga=791 and xdriver=vesa, but X would not
work.
I removed the card and used the built-in video chip, and it started
up
without a problem. Anyone know of a work around for this nvidia
driver
problem?
Try just 'vesa'...aside from that, can you replace the card, boot the
installed system to runlevel 3, run 'startx' and see what happens?
Assuming it hangs, reboot to runlevel 3 again and take a copy
of /var/log/Xorg.0.log before doing whatever you need to do to get
graphics back, so we can see the log of a failed attempt to start X and
try and figure out what's wrong.
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