20030530: help request for RedHat 9.0 Linux problems (cont.)

>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: NIU
>Keywords: 200305292134.h4TLY8Ld000862

Gilbert,

re: previous XFree86 configuration file used?

>Right. And that is the one that crashed the machine.

OK, just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page.

re: does this machine have the same video card as your other machines

>No. And...

>Just found out from a Linux group and from a sysadmin guy on campus that 
>NVidia cards have really had problems, and now I'm hearing them about RH 
>9. I'm going to swap it out next week. It's there card.

Hmm...  I would venture to guess that the problem would most likely
be in the driver for the video card and not the card itself.  After
all, it _was_ working for you under RedHat 8, and it is most likely
working on tens of thousands of machines running Windows.

re: running Xconfigurator remotely wouldn't give us much information

>True, come to think of it!

re: we may logon and poke around

>OK. Good luck, from what I have now heard, it's the video card.

Well, since Mike had to leave, and since you have a lead on a problem
with RH 9 and the video card you are using, I think will concentrate
on some other pressing problems this afternoon.

Please let us know if your problem goes away with a different video
card, and if it does, what video card didn't work, and what card(s)
do work.

Tom