[elrepo] nVidia 185.18.36 GigaByte 8500GT RHEL/Centos 5.3 driver not working in init 5

Akemi Yagi toracat at elrepo.org
Fri Oct 16 17:56:50 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic
<office at plcomputers.net> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Is there a reason that nVidia driver 185.18.36 fails to give resolution
> higher than 640x480 in GUI mode, but when I set init 3 in inittab and
> reboot, it will load wit startx?
>
> This is woth same config file, only difference is init mode.

This does not really make sense to me.  When you set runlevel to 5 in
inittab and then _reboot_, you only get 640x480 -- is this what you
are seeing?

Akemi / toracat



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