Redhat 9 geforce 2 black screen

[yye00]

I have recently tried to upgrade my RH8 to RH9. My system is an P4 1.5 GHz 128MB RAM geforce 2 MX400 64MB VRAM, and worked well with RH8. Once I boot from the RH9 CD1 (once the xserver starts) I get a monitor message of no input signal detected and the monitor turns black. I know that stuff is happening, I can hear the CDROM and HD working, but to no avail. I even installed RH9 using the text only mode, and I installed RH9. Grub boots fine and when I select RH9 as my OS, it starts, until I get the same thing (black screen) on the Xserver. Has anybody had this problem?? Does anybody know how to solve it??

[Andy Mecham]

The opensource "nv" driver, used by RH's installer and your default X driver, has some known issues with flatpanels. The accelerated nvidia driver does not have these issues.

--andy

[gafami]

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[Andy Mecham]

gafami: do you have an SMP machine?

--andy

[gafami]

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[Andy Mecham]

This is a known issue - DVI->SMP causes a hang. The current workarounds are to use an analog cable, or to fall back to a UP kernel. We hope to have this resolved *very* soon.

--andy

[yye00]

any solutions to this problem? I also did try mandrake 9.1 yesterday, it installs in graphical mode yet crashes upon booting. Is there a way to solve this? Any suggestions at all?


NB I do not know what SMP stands for. Exactly what is it?

[Andy Mecham]

yye00: Your problem appears to be a flatpanel recognition bug in the opensource "nv" driver; this is not present in the accelerated "nvidia" driver. Please download 1.0-4349 from www.nvidia.com and install it.

SMP stands for Symmetric Multi Processing - it means two or more CPUs.

--andy

[yye00]

the funny thing is the following: after booting and the black screen I try to shut down the x server to get a command line, so I hold down Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace and nothing happens. The computer churns for some time and then stops. Is there a way to boot in text mode without enabling Xserver? would interactive setup help in this?

Thank you

[Andy Mecham]

Yes - boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5. You can do this by editing your grub (or lilo) kernel boot line and adding a 3 to the end. With grub, you can do this on the fly. With lilo, just type 'linux 3' (or whatever your default choice is).

--andy

[yye00]

thanks it worked out great!!!

[gafami]

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