[firebird79]

just download the latest wine from winehq.com. when i update it in my RH7.3, it show me that needed openGL. i search in google and it bring me back to nvidia.com. i download the driver(2 of them-1 driver and 1 kernel stuff). the RH7.3 crash after i install and reboot. the X won't start. even when i type "X". i don't know where i did wrong...so my question is.....is there any other place where i can get openGL. i much prefer rpm than tar-ball file. i always screw thing up when i deal with tar-ball file.

[phantom punisher]

at some point during the normal install of nividia drivers you wont be able to start x. you most likely need to modify and be certain your running the xfree86 4.02 or greater. ive got a how to sticky that chaoticly described this procces. heres a better writen one by titan that pretains to you directly:
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showth...=nvidia+driver

edit: forein people on this forum spell and write english better than me.

[parkan]

Originally posted by firebird79
just download the latest wine from winehq.com. when i update it in my RH7.3, it show me that needed openGL. i search in google and it bring me back to nvidia.com. i download the driver(2 of them-1 driver and 1 kernel stuff). the RH7.3 crash after i install and reboot. the X won't start. even when i type "X". i don't know where i did wrong...so my question is.....is there any other place where i can get openGL. i much prefer rpm than tar-ball file. i always screw thing up when i deal with tar-ball file.

1) At what point do you get the error? Is it during install or during use? Posting the actual error might help too.
2) Did you follow the instructions in the readme?
3) There is 1001 reason for X to crash... posting the error messages might help
4) Starting via "X" is never the way to go since it does not parse the config file, startx should always be used.
5) That's just "tarball", not "tar-ball file"

[Titan386]

As phantom said, try looking at my post. It has the steps that worked for me when I installed a NVidia card. Tell us if it works out for you. Unfortunaly, I've heard nothing but bad things about the rpm drivers for Red Hat. The tars are much more reliable. There is nothing particularly more difficult about it, just a few more commands you need to type. Refer to my post (linked in phantom's post) for step by step instuctions. I hope it works out for you.

BTW, if the drivers messed up your system, which is sounds they did, you should be able to set the driver back to "vesa" in the XF86Config-4 file and you might be able to get back to some sort of a X desktop. At a command promt type the following to do this:

su
(you need root access to alter the file)
pico /etc/XF86Config-4
Change Driver "nvidia" or Driver "nv" to Driver "vesa"
Save and exit (ctrl +x, y, return)
startx

See if that helps. It worked once for me, another time it seemed my X was damaged beyond repair, so the good 'ol install disks came out once again...

[parkan]

Originally posted by Titan386
As phantom said, try looking at my post. It has the steps that worked for me when I installed a NVidia card. Tell us if it works out for you. Unfortunaly, I've heard nothing but bad things about the rpm drivers for Red Hat. The tars are much more reliable. There is nothing particularly more difficult about it, just a few more commands you need to type. Refer to my post (linked in phantom's post) for step by step instuctions. I hope it works out for you.

BTW, if the drivers messed up your system, which is sounds they did, you should be able to set the driver back to "vesa" in the XF86Config-4 file and you might be able to get back to some sort of a X desktop. At a command promt type the following to do this:

su
(you need root access to alter the file)
pico /etc/XF86Config-4
Change Driver "nvidia" or Driver "nv" to Driver "vesa"
Save and exit (ctrl +x, y, return)
startx

See if that helps. It worked once for me, another time it seemed my X was damaged beyond repair, so the good 'ol install disks came out once again...

pico?!

[Titan386]

Originally posted by parkan


pico?!

Hey, if it works, it works.

[firebird79]

hey guys.....thanks for it.....it helps! now i finally get the NVidia driver installed!