pioneers are the ones who get arrows from front. GF4 + RH7.2 = trouble!

[n00b]

I have a GeForce 4 TI 4200.
I (thanks to my father) can succesfully dual boot between windows 98 and Red Hat Linux 7.2. (thank god!)
When I type in "startX" it says "something something fatal error no screens found something something"
This has to do with the fact that there is no driver installed.
My father tried to sort things out, but mission failed.
I think he downloaded the two files from NVIDIA and changed a few stuff, but the oucome remained.

What must we do?
(babytalk for me please)

[redhattigger]

There is a PDF file that you can download from NVIDIA that shows how to install and run the drivers, though it's a bit unhelpful in some cases. I've just installed a Vanta card on my RH7.2/W98 machine so it's much the same as yours.

I assume you have downloaded and installed the following

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.rh72up.i686.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.i386.rpm

or similar

Install them

rpm -ivh <filename>

You will need to make alterations to the /etc/X11/XF68Config-4 especially the "ServerLayout" "Screen" and the "Device" sections. There is a sample XF86Config-4.sample that shows what should be in each of these sections. Copy/paste or edit.
Make sure the identifiers in the Serverlayout, screen and Device sections are consistent.


run /slib/lsmod to check if an NVdriver module is loaded, if not
insmod NVdriver.

Also check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what, if any, error messages you're getting.

Andy