I've read a few posts on this but not one that put it all together. Hopefully this will help all, even the newbie, to be able to setup Red Hat on a Dell 8100. INSTALL LINUX 1. Perform the normal install, choose Default Video(I think it detects the GEForce2 Go), and the any Monitor. It really doesn't matter since you'll be overwriting this stuff later. Also, MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL THE Linux KERNEL Headers. You'll need these to compile the NVIDIA driver. BOOT IN TEXT MODE 2. I selected GRUB as my Boot Manager. When it comes up You'll see the following Line: GRUB DIRECTIONS Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) - Hit 'e' to Edit You'll see the following: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdb=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img - Move down to the second line and hit 'e' to edit that line. Add a '3' after the vmlinuz like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 3 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdb=ide-scsi - Hit ENTER and then hit 'b' to boot with those options. This will boot you with network but not X-Windows. LILO DIRECTIONS - On the initial screen hit X for Text Mode - Type Linux 3 to boot in Text Mode(no X-Windows) DOWNLOAD DRIVERS 3. You should download the latest drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux I downloaded the following RPM's. NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.i386.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.src.rpm 4. Copy the files to your linux machine. I put them in /tmp using a floppy to transfer from another computer. INSTALL DRIVERS 5. You should download the documentation for installing the drivers but I'll include how I did it here. - Goto the /tmp directory or whereever you copied the drivers that you just downloaded. - Type the following commands: Compile the driver If you see errors during this compile, you probably don't have the Linux Red Hat Kernel Headers installed. $ rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.1.0-1541.src.rpm Install the NVIDIA driver $ rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_kernel.i386.rpm Install GLX driver $ rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.i386.rpm CONFIGURE XFREE86-4 6. We're almost there... Hopefully one day, this configuration will get easier. Until then, we'll have to continue to help each other. Anything to make Linux an alternative to W$. Next we need to backup your original /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. 7. Next copy the sample file from NVIDIA /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX- 1.0/XF86Config.sample to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 8. Edit the FILES section. My FontPath was set to "unix/:-1" which caused the X server to bomb. I changed it to 7100. FontPath "unix/:7100" 9. Edit the DEVICE section. This was correct in my setup but just in case, from the prompt, type in lspci. Look for the following Line. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0112 (rev b2) Under the Device that has an Identifier of "NV AGP" make sure the BusID is set to "PCI:01:00:0 or whatever your lspci returns. Section "Device" Identifier "NV AGP" VendorName "nvidia" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:01:00:0" EndSection 10. Edit the SCREEN Section. This sets up your screen depth and resolution. The only thing I changed here was to add "1600x1200" in front of the "1280x1024" and change the default color depth. I removed the Depth 8 and Depth 16 sections as well as 640x480 as a resolution. That's a dead resolution in my opinion. Here's my final SCREEN Section: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen AGP" Device "NV AGP" Monitor "MyMonitor" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubsection EndSection 11. Add the DRI section. Make sure that dri is also loaded in your MODULES section. Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection 12. REBOOT and Enjoy your awesome setup. OTHER NOTES 13. You'll have to manually copy over all of the other sections of your XF86Config-4 file like the keyboard, mouse, modules etc... If you don't, things will probably work but may not include settings for your particular mouse/keyboard etc... I had a Logitech MouseMan + so I had to copy those settings from my backed up copy of the XF86Config- 4 file. Also I ended up removing the XF86Config file(the other one in the /etc/X11 directory. I'm not an expert in why there are two but I'm running fine with just the XF86Config-4 file. 14. Black BOX Around X-Screen??? Yeah, me too. I hit Ctrl + F7 (twice). I'm not sure why it required 2 times but that put everything in full screen mode. Much better... 15. Switching Resolution Modes??? I don't have this down quite right. Hitting CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD -(minus) and +(plus) should change your resolutions up and down based on your list in the display section. This doesn't work quite right with this setup. For some reason it goes into a Virtual screen instead of real resolution. I'm not really that anxious to fix this since I'll be running in 1600x1200 all the time(why waste this awesome video setup???). However, if someone knows something on how to fix this, let me know. Send me an e-mail if you need my complete XF86Config file. I'm NOT an expert and everything I just wrote is just about everything I know about this setup so chances are I can't help fix your problem if it isn't addressed here. Good Luck! Eric Sundby eric@sundby.net -------------------------------------------------------------- Please post your X config files in the group links or database FAQ: http://www.whacked.net/ldl-faq Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/