Linux help ....................Please.

[Minimaul]

Ok , here's the deal :

I have WinMe on my puter now. My puter is a P3 , 866Mghz , 40gb hard drive yadda yadda ya .

I want (have) to put Linux Red Hat 7 on my puter as a dual boot. That's fine , I can do that. I know that with my video card it wont work (Geforce 2) But I've seen and got some file's and shit that are supposed to help. I've got the one's I need .

When I install it say's something about Xconfigurator not working. Then when I log into (for the 'first' time) , it does it just fine. But when I go to type startx , it wont load. It says something like 'no screens on ' .

When I reboot , and come back to it , the log in screen (all text , always is (so far)) it will chill for a second ...then flash a few times and say this error:

According to /var/run/gdm.pid , gdm was already running (699) , but seem's to have been murdered mysteriously

The screen will flash , and I'll only be able to type something in quickly. Then it does that error again.

I tried to install it in ' expert ' mode once. ( heh ) and I got this error at one point:

Trace back (innermost last)
File " /usr/bin/anaconda " line 438 in ?
intf.run(todo , text=test)
File " /var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py ",
Line 1030 , in run

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I've been fucking with this for 3 day's -- well nights really. If you can help I'd be stoked . I really want to get this working .I'm so sick of winME.

aaaah , yeah..thanks.

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[Minimaul]

I've got a Nvidia GeForce2 MX and Red Hat 7.

I've gone through dozen's of how-to's on trying to get my video card and it to work . But no avail. This is about as far as I can get , and I think that once this is fixed it will work . Or atleast I hope.


<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>
Unpack the Nvidia_kernel driver and cd into the directory and typed 'make' . This should install it
[/quote]

It does NOT install. Every how-to I've read say's it should install , but it doesn't . Either a) I'm doing something wrong b) It is doing something wrong 3) I'm a dumbass.

Here's what I(am supposed to) do :

[root@localhost]gunzip NVIDIA_kernel-0.9.tar.gz
(that works)
[root@localhost]tar -xvf NVIDIA_kernel0.9.tar
(that works and it makes a new directery. called NVIDIA_kernel-0.9)
[root@localhost]cd NVIDIA_kernel-0.9
[root@localhost /NVIDIA_kernel-0.9]make
(I've also tried ' make SYSINCLUDE=/src/src/linux/include - same result . Then it brings up this):

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>
rm -f nv.o os-interface.0 os-registry.0 Module-linux
cc -c Wall -Wunknow-pragmas -Wno-multichar -0 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
-DLOOSE_ KERNEL-NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNU4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -DRM_AEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-I. -I /usr/src/linux/include nv.c

In file include from NV.C:49:
/usr/inlcude/linux/modversions .h.1.2 #error Modules should never use kernel headers system headers ,
/usr/include/linux/modverson .h.2.2 #error but hearders from an appropriate kernel-source
make *** [nv.o]Error 1
[/quote]



Did I do something wrong? Is it messed up? Am I missing something?

Any help or suggestion's , and whatnot would make me happy you can email me at minimaul@gci.net
I just got Red Hat 7 about a week ago , and I've yet to see any graphic's .

http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/frown.gif

Thanks for your time.



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[Minimaul]

Nevermind . I got Mandrake 7.2 . And that installed just fine . But now i've got an extra copy of RH7. I wonder if I can take some of the file's from the RH7 disk's and use them on M7.2 ? hehe



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Thanks to Rogue for dropping in and helping this "clueless as to Linux" mod. Sorry I couldnt be of any help, Minimaul.

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[Minimaul]

Thanks. But I just droped it. I gave up because I'm dumb and don't/didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I'll stick to the idiot proof shit.

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[Back Tick]

My apologies, Ive been busy as of late and havnt been able to check the tech support forum. But I can help you with the problem you gave up on with redhat 7.

You're having a few problems, and it isnt really because of your video card.

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>According to /var/run/gdm.pid , gdm was already running (699) , but seem's to have been murdered mysteriously [/quote]

That means that something went wrong with the executable gdm when it was run, and it died, but the lockfile (which tells the system that its currently running) was never removed. This can be fixed by typing rm /var/run/gdm.pid

What is GDM? GDM is gnomes desktop manager.
You chose to boot into a graphical user interface. GDM is what is launched for you to login, and start your window manager of choice (gnome or enlightenment id assume by default)

When you installed redhat you probably had an option of whether you wanted to boot into the graphical user interface, or the console. At that question I always chose console for problems like this, where the GUI runs into problems and gets into a constant loop of trying to run itself, while problems are present. --Redhat seems to be going the route of GUI, so the option may have been removed.

Have no fear! Once this loop begins, when the screen starts flashing, hit CTRL-C which may kill the process of restarting gdm over and over. If that doesnt work, you can type ctrl-alt-f2 which should bring up another console. login to this console as root. then execute the following command
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>ps -ef | grep gdm[/quote]
It should give you a few processes that match our search pattern of 'gdm'. Kill them al.

To kill the processes, look at the list of processes we just printed out, and search for what looks like the PID, it'll be a numberto the left of the screen. To kill the process execute the command:
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>kill -9 PID[/quote]
Where PID is the number associated with the process from ps.

Kill all the involved processes, it may take a few attempts, because it may try to restart gdm after you kill it. If that happens, try killing the processes in a different order.

Once you have a stable console and the processes associated with gdm are dead, switch back over to your primary console by hitting ctrl-alt-f1


If you have a stable prompt you're ready to CONFIGURE X.

In redhat you can configure X with XF86Setup
remember, case matters. XF86Setup should be easy for you to use. --if you run into any problems, let me know. I'll try to help out.

If XF86Setup is not in your path, it may be in /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup or /usr/X11R6/sbin/XF86Setup

Good luck, Enjoy.

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