I have an intel motherboard 845gv-m3 pentuim 4 with an 82845G onboard vga card, the problem I have is that I tried to install redhat 9 shrike! , but linux only understands my onboard vga card and not my gerforce 4000mx agp card ...? how do I get linux to work with my geforce? , I have already re-installed linux once before , but with same results...... part of the technical mesg is "(WW)1810: no matching device section for instance (busID PCI :0:2:0) fou (EE) no devices detected fatal server error" so......help ?

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I'm no expert, but I'll try to help.

I don't know what distro you're using, either.

In your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file you have sections for different devices. You need to add a section for your graphics card.

That error means that it found your video card on "PCI:0:2:0" but it couldn't find a matching device section in your config file to tell it how to use the video card.

Here's a sample device section for you:

Section "Device"        Identifier   "GeForce 4000mx"        Driver       "nv"        VendorName   "NVidia"        BoardName    "GeForce 4000mx"        BusID        "PCI:0:2:0"EndSection

You'll have to make sure your Section "Screen" uses Device "GeForce 4000mx" instead of whatever it's at now, too.

The 'nv' driver may not be installed yet. You can also just use 'vga' for the driver so you can use the graphical interface and try to add 3D acceleration later by downloading and installing NVidia's proprietary drivers.

At least you're not using a newer ATI card; ATI has really bad linux drivers. (I have a slightly older ATI card; I can use the open-source 'radeon' driver.)

Good luck getting it working!