-- On 2008-02-06 +0100 at 09:05:14 Beyerle Urs wrote --

> Hi,
> 
> If you are not "afraid" of proprietary drivers you can try the NVIDIA 
> driver from SL contrib:
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/contrib/video/
> 
> Install nvidia-x11-drv and dkms. dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) will 
> take care that the nvidia kernel module is rebuilt after a kernel update.
> 

       Hi,

       thank you very much, I did that and it works.

       Googling around I also discover that I got the pointer
       back if I suppress the "rhgb" option in grub.conf. 

> Configure the nvidia driver with /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and not with 
> system-config-display.
> 
       You mean /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig I think.

       P.S. On that machine (Dell Optiplex 740) I could not run
       your liveCD or liveDVD (4.5 , 5.0 and 5.1)

       After "creating /dev/entries" I got the message:

       fatal error occured - Data for LiveCD not found. 
       Are you using SCSI ?


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