Colin Anderson
02-04-2003, 05:50 AM
I was successfully able to get Red Hat 8.0 installed on my Inspiron 8200 -- but the screen color depth had much to be desired. Despite my dismay, I was able to successfully (insofar as I can tell) compile and install the latest nVidia graphics drivers for my GeForce4 440 Go card. This is a 1600x1200 native LCD display, which may be the source of some of the problems. Now, this is where the problems begin. When booting, if I let it do it's thing, when it gets to the init runlevels and boots X, it seems to stall and displays a blank screen. If, just before it boots X (for the split second the multi-user runlevel appears), and I type anything there, X will boot using the nVidia drivers. I've attempted to change the runtime levels so I have to login and then startx, but then only GNOME runs though I have KDE set as default. If I ever put the computer in standby mode, (via the power monitor applet that [apparently] comes with KDE for laptops), everything seems to stall and the screen remains blank. Now I've gone through all of the nVidia documentation it seems, and have played with many settings with XF86Config, and am still unable to resolve the "stalling" that tends to occur. Anyone else have similar experiences or know of a way to fix this? I very much appreciate any help. :)
-Colin
-Colin