RedHat 9 Installation Problems... NVIDIA Drivers

[SabirIbrahim]

Hi,

I recently bought a Sony VAIO GRT170 notebook computer and I'm trying to install RedHat Linux 9 alongside Windows XP. I'm pretty sure the dual-booting works properly, since the GRUB bootloader comes up at startup like it's supposed to, but when I choose Linux, I get a blank screen (after all the intialization commands). From what I've read so far, I think this is because of the video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 FX Go 5600, 64MB); during installation, instead of leaving the generic VESA driver selected, stupid me went through the list and chose the one that most closely matched. My question is: how do I fix this without completely redoing the installation? I downloaded the updated Linux drivers from NVIDIA's website, but I don't know how to use them. Since I can't even really start Linux at all, I have no idea what to do. I'm a complete newbie, so step-by-steb help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Sabir

[Dolda2000]

At what point does it stop? Does it stop after the kernel messages, after the rc.sysinit messages, after the runlevel setup, or upon X server startup? If you look closely, can you see the text login prompt flash by before it goes black?

[yowwww]

FX cards have been a nightmare so far, even with the new drivers, just be happy you can get X

to fix things:


redhat-config-xfree86