geforce3 and red hat 7.0 = no go ...

[ant_g]

has any body successfully got a geforce3 going under redhat 7 (not 7.1)

unfortunately I'm having no luck hacking the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 files ..

have installed the nvidia bins from rpm to no avail, so did the source install .. which reported all ok ..

each time I'm getting a not known driver error when I've changed the nv to nvidia in a relevant Device section..

.. also as an aside .. when I try to run X with just a bog standard SVGA server - its stuck at 320 x 200 256 colour (not the most helpful of resolutions .. lol) .. and even though I've added 800 x 600 upto 1600 by 1200 I'm unable to zoom between them .. think its defaulting to 320 x 200 becuase Xfree4.0.1 doesn't know the Geforce3 chipset .. but dunno tbh..

if ne ones had a success story with the 2.2.xx kernel , xfree86 4.0.1 and the latest nvidia drivers for a geforce3 card .. I'd be ecstatic to hear from them ..

cheers ears

Ant

[Malakin]

RTFM :) http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/959/SUPP/NVLinuxReleaseNotes_1512.pdf

[ant_g]

Originally posted by Malakin:
<STRONG>RTFM :) http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/959/SUPP/NVLinuxReleaseNotes_1512.pdf</STRONG>


uh huh .. that had occured to me .. I did use the correct kernel headers in the SYSINCLUDE argument when I compiled the source for the kernel module .. so I figure it can;t be that .. other than that he nvidia docs are a bit barren in the trouble shooting when it comes to failing to find the "nvidia" driver .. grrr .. cheers for the linkage anyway

[pbharris]

hello,
you want to try out xfree86 4.10

[ant_g]

cheers all for the replies ..

finally got it going - hazaar .. bizarly - just did exactly the same steps again - and it worked .. lol oh well one of those things