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

[S.Tindall]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 00:33 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Yes. Actualy, it gives me option for 320x240 and 640x480.
> 
> I have compared Xorg's log for both init 5 and init 3,and with init 5 it 
>   looks like xorg.conf is not being used at all, but the default 
> configuration incorporated into /usr/bin/Xorg (etc/X11/X).
> 
> When I installed the CentOS 5.3, Anaconda was not able to run in GUI 
> mode, I had to install it in text mode. I then added firstly nvidia 
> packages from Atrpms, then tried kmod's from ElRepo. Same thing in both 
> cases.
> 
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > 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?

Often, a low-resolution-only issue can be fixed by selecting an
appropriate default monitor.

>From either GUI or CLI, start system-config-display and select a monitor
under the Hardware Tab that matches your monitor's resolution.  A
generic CRT/LCD monitor at the top of the list will usually be good
enough.

Then under the Settings Tab, change the resolution to the resolution
matching the monitor.

You need to restart the xserver (i.e., log out/in from GUI) for the new
settings to take effect.

Steve