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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I'm having issues with getting
my new video card setup properly, and I'm hoping that the problem is just me and
my inexperience. I'm just not sure what I might have done wrong, or what
else to try. here's the deal:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an Athlon 1700 with an SGI VR3 Quadro video
card. The card is basically a standard nVidia Quadro but put out by
SGI. This card was initially released only in SGI's 330 and 550 NT/Linux
boxes. SGI has some files on their site, but I'm not sure if these are to
be used only with their workstations, or anytime you use this card. ( <A
href="http://support.sgi.com/linux/downloads/">http://support.sgi.com/linux/downloads/</A> )
Their files are all older, and because everything I've found says that they use
the same drivers that nVidia puts out, I installed the most current drivers from
nVidia's site. ( <A
href="http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux">http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux</A> )
The install went very smoothly (as far as I can tell), but when I try to startx,
it won't go, and I get an error saying:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver
kernel module</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(II) Unloading
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable
configuration</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fatal server error:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>no screens found</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>would anyone be able to push me in the right
direction to figure this out. I'm not sure what info may be the most
helpful to someone wanting to help, but let me know and I'll supply what I
can. If it matters, I'm running Red Hat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.17.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks in advance for any help,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff Schmidt</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>