[CS-FSLUG] New Video Card FC 5 HELP!!

[Pastor George C Cook]

Thank you so much Dave

I got enough info from this to get going it was a real uphill battle 
though cause my Kernal and the Kernel Devel were a mismatch but I got 
it working

Whew

I will post up my step by step info soon

Shalom

PG



At 07:20 PM 6/16/2007, you wrote:
>Welcome, Pastor George!
>
>On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Pastor George C Cook wrote:
>
> > The Linux side obviously has not found the new hardware gracefully
> > and as soon as the graphics start to load the screen
> > gets all slanted looking with 3 images (refresh rate?)
>
>That happens from time to time. Try to think of it as a mere annoyance,
>which most likely can be fixed, as your question assumes.
>
> > Anyways I need some step by step directions on how to boot the
> > machine into the command line (Edit a line in grub?)
> > and then install the driver I got from
> > NVIDIA  (NVIDIA-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run) and tell linux to use the driver.
>
>Did you know the latest is now NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09-pkg1.run? I'm
>using that even as we speak on my Debian Etch box.
>
> > I know this is a noob question but I pray you will have mercy on a
> > country pastor and take me by the hand with this
>
>We all had to start somewhere, Bro.
>
>Next boot, hit: CTRL+ALT+F2. That should put you at a console, where
>you can type "init 3" -- on most Linux distros that kills the X server,
>which is what you are fighting with.
>
>Ed Hurst
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