 | | | display problems - help | display problems - help 2004-02-04 - By Pete Nesbitt
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On February 3, 2004 11:48 am, Howard Protheroe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I set-up redhat 9 working with two monitors and it was working fine. Why
> tinker? I hear you ask.
>
> The problem..
> I upgraded my video card to a nvidia fx500 and everything has gone to pot.
> I seemed to mess up everything trying to install the drivers and resorted
> to reloading the whole of redhat hoping that it would all be simple.
>
> From my install disc I couldn 't get a graphical install so I did a text
> based install.
>
> Selected the driver for nvidia fx series.
>
> Now the computer will not boot past the 'starting firstboot ' stage and my
> monitor goes dead saying no signal. I don 't seem to be able to get to the
> command prompt.
>
> Please help.
> Thanks
> Howard
Hi,
to get past first boot, you 'll probably have to use single user mode, then
either create or edit:
/etc/sysconfig/firstboot
to contain:
RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO
I you 'lll probably need to get nvidea drivers and/or edit /etc/X11/XF86Config
once you get into the system.
--
Pete Nesbitt, rhce
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