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Have a nice day,
Pradeep
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R Pradeep Chandran                 pradeep DOT chandran AT sisl.co.in
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Quote:> Hi All,
> I bought an Athlon XP1700+ system with an ASUS A7N266-E motherboard.
> Now, this motherboard uses the NVidia NForce N 420D chipset and has an
> onboard display based on GeForce2 MX 2. I installed RedHat 7.2 I was
> able to install using the GUI. But the X configuration failed. Automatic
> detection failed and the driver isn't listed in the available ones.
> Neother is the monitor (LG Flatron E700S). I tried using the driver for
> GeForce MX Generic and used manual configuration for the monitor. No
> use. Has anyone come across this problem before? Any advice on how to
> proceed?

> Have a nice day,
> Pradeep
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> R Pradeep Chandran                 pradeep DOT chandran AT sisl.co.in
>   All opinions are mine and do not represent those of my employer.

Rgrds
Lobster B

Well, Did you find out why it said that? I am using Forte Free Agent and
to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't use any thing fancy. Just plain
7-bit ASCII. I really would like to know what caused the warning.

Have a nice day,
Pradeep
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R Pradeep Chandran                 pradeep DOT chandran AT sisl.co.in
  All opinions are mine and do not represent those of my employer.

:Hi,
:See http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
:The instructions are detailed enough... AFAIK it applies to nForce as
:well...

It is working now. I followed the procedure given by NVidia and was able
to get X working. I had some problems witht the rpm packages. So I
downloaded the source and compiled it. It is working perfectly. I am
adding the device section of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file which I had
modified to make it working. Also, the modules section. Hope others who
had problems might find it useful.

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"           # Double-buffering
        Load  "glx"           # OpenGL X protocol interface
        Load  "extmod"                # Misc. required extensions
        Load  "v4l"           # Video4Linux
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "NVidiaNForce420"
        Driver "nvidia" # This is the important one.
        BoardName "ASUS-A7N266-E"
EndSection

I generated the initial configuration file using Xconfigurator, by
choosing NVidia GeForce 2 MX driver. Also, since my monitor was not
listed, I had to enter the details manually, after selecting Custom. A
bit of tweaking and everything worked fine. man XF86Config was very
useful. I guess it all came down to RTFM. :-)

Have a nice day,
Pradeep

PS: I also made similar changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config Just to be sure.
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