4349, Redhat 9 - Black screen for several mins when starting X

[shahsag]

I'm running Redhat 9, with the latest nVidia drivers.

My hardware is a GeForce3 Ti200 + Hansol 700Fs Flat Screen. My processor is an Athlon XP1900+. I'm running the standard kernel tha comes wih the Redhat 9.0 distro.

When i use the nVidia drivers and start X there's a pause of 2mins+ before my window manger appears, during which time all i see is a black screen.

Does anyone else get a pause this long? Have you been able to resolve it? If so what did you do?

Anyone have any ideas of what could be causing my problem?

Apart from my TFT screen, i really don't see what's so special about my setup.

Thanks

[ragnarw]

Some vid cards seem to have this problem. I was suffering the same.
What fixed it for me is to add the IgnoreDIsplayDevices to my XF86config.
Here's my Device section:

Section "Device"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Identifier "GeForce3 Ti500"
Driver "nvidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 3 (generic)"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
# Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
EndSection

Since you're using a TFT, you should probably add this line to the Device section:

add Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT, TV"

It prevents the driver from scanning for other connected displays. Read the documentation with the driver for more info.
Hope it helps.

[shahsag]

Thanks very much it worked a treat :-)

FYI: for anyone else reading the post. If your flat panel display is connected to your computer by the standard -pin video display then you should not ignore CRT. Ignore the DFP.

I guess i should have RTFM a little closer.

Thanks again.

Sagar

[unhuman]

This worked for me too...

Shame nVidia can't get this right, however.

And, google needs to improve their web search... Took forever to find this posting.

-H