[AG-TECH] Problems starting up AG on RH9 on Nvidia - any solutions?

[Randy Groves]

(Killed by the time-warp again ...)

I realized almost immediately after I sent this message that I forgot that 
I was VNC'd into this box, and sent another note indicating so, and that 
this worked fine on the console of the machine.  Andrew Swan put me on the 
path of a solution.  He suggested checking the display setting with 
xdpyinfo.  Upon doing so in the VNC session, I found that the default 
setting of vncserver of 8 bits of display depth is too small for the 
vic.  I altered the vncserver so that it used 16 bits on startup, and I can 
now run the client over VNC.

Just in case anyone else has hit this ...

At 01:15 PM 4/7/2004, Joshua M. Brown wrote:
> > What's going on here? Anybody gotten this Nvidia card to work in RH9?  I
> > should also add that I've not added any special Nvidia drivers to this
> > machine.  Just using whatever got loaded with RH9.
>
>i don't know if this can fix your problem for you or not, but yes, nvidia
>provides an excellent pack of drivers for linux. If they do not have one
>prebuilt for you, the package will compile a new driver for your machine.
>You'll need to visit the site and grab the latest. Gotta love nvidia.
>
>i have a dual head nvidia on RH9 at home...the x86config file took some
>tweaking though. i strongly suggest *always* backing up your config file
>before making any changes.
>
>josh
>
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > -randy
> >
> >
> >