[NBLUG/talk] X11, Xinerama, and Kernel Updates -dual monitorsand redhat

[Dave Rohling]

Ok, I changed the driver to nv from my Nvidia driver I downloaded, and it
works. I need to start the entire OS, without X to install Nvidia's driver.
How can I do that? When I kill X it restarts now. And if I do Linux 3 in
Lilo it doesn't load everything that I need, apparently.

- Dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
William L. Thomson Jr.
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:54 AM
To: nblug
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] X11, Xinerama, and Kernel Updates -dual
monitorsand redhat


On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:41, Dave Rohling wrote:
> When I ran the up2date on my Redhat 9.0 box, which was properly 
> configured for dual monitors, the update broke my dual monitor 
> configuration. My video driver and XF86Config file are still there, 
> and when I boot into the previous kernel, it works. Any idea what 
> could have changed? Does this mean it is something in the Kernel 
> itself?

I noticed similar but different issues on a multimedia machine I use to
watch TV on. It's running RH 9, and it seems one of the kernels I upgraded
to did not have module support for many of my peripherals. Of course the
previous kernel came with just about everything compiled as modules.

Not sure why RH went that way, but I bet in your case the new kernel does
not have modules compiled for your setup. Thus going back to the previous
kernel and the problem going away. I would boot the working kernel and do a
lsmod or dmesg to see what is either compiled into your kernel and what is
loaded. Then boot the other and compare.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com

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