nvidia problems

[Joppo]

I recently installed red hat 8.0. I downloaded new nvidia drivers from their site and it said failed dependances/it needed NVIDIA_kernel. So i went and found what i thought to be nivida_kernel rpm and installed and rebooted after and now my x wont load... yay........ Could someone tell me how to reinstall xfree using my red hat cds and what i need to do to install new nvidia drivers.. btw its a tnt2 32mb.

[tonimontanna]

You need to build the source rpm and then install it. Then install the GLX drivers. Once that is completed its time to open up your favorite editor and hack your X config. That is hack out GLCORE and GLX_DRI (I believe) and replace the nv drive with nvidia.

[bwkaz]

Did you read the README file on nVidia's driver download page?

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123

Also, you might want to take a look at my soon-to-be-submitted-as-an-NHF on the nVidia drivers:

http://3dguios.resnet.mtu.edu/nVidia-NHF.html

It will be removed from that server as soon as it gets posted as an NHF, so it won't be around forever, but that's where it lives for now.

Edit: to recover, you can just rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX, then rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel, and then reboot. Hopefully. If that doesn't work, then you can still fix things; it will involve editing your X config file by hand, which isn't too hard.