[rescue] Linux help (was ZX coolness)

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:33:58AM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
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>>On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
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>>>XFree runs as root to my understanding.  Besides, the nvidia drivers
>>>require a kernel module be loaded.
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>>oooOOOOOoooo... you're caught in that XFree86 module + kernel module trap.
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>Someone else informed me that I needed to get rid of the AGPGART kernel
>module to make it stop crashing.  
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>But what I can't remeber is, do I need to keep the DRI kernel module for
>the nvidia drivers?  I'll read the documentation that comes with it when
>I update those as well.  I tried to last night, but their site wouldn't
>load for me.
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>Today or tomorrow, I expect a Geforce3 to arrive, and maybe that will
>help also. 
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What distribution are you running? Have you tried Gentoo? It really is 
nice. It is really easy to get up and running with ReiserFS, ext3, XFS, 
JFS and the nVidia drivers.

shawn