On Friday 08 February 2002 10:07 pm, you wrote: > hello, > I'm having issues with getting my new video card setup properly, and > I'm hoping that the problem is just me and my inexperience. I'm just not > sure what I might have done wrong, or what else to try. here's the deal: > > I have an Athlon 1700 with an SGI VR3 Quadro video card. The card is > basically a standard nVidia Quadro but put out by SGI. This card was > initially released only in SGI's 330 and 550 NT/Linux boxes. SGI has some > files on their site, but I'm not sure if these are to be used only with > their workstations, or anytime you use this card. ( > http://support.sgi.com/linux/downloads/ ) Their files are all older, and > because everything I've found says that they use the same drivers that > nVidia puts out, I installed the most current drivers from nVidia's site. ( > http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux ) The install went very smoothly > (as far as I can tell), but when I try to startx, it won't go, and I get an > error saying: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a > (EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > would anyone be able to push me in the right direction to figure this out. > I'm not sure what info may be the most helpful to someone wanting to help, > but let me know and I'll supply what I can. If it matters, I'm running Red > Hat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.17. > > thanks in advance for any help, > > Jeff Schmidt -- I'm getting exactly the same problem; if you find a solution, please let me know. In the interim, by replacing "nvidia" with "nv" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 , I can use the default nvidia drivers, rather than the spiffy new ones from NVidia. ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------