Video Problems for Precision 390

[John Arends]

I'm having 3 nagging video problems with my precision 390 running RHEL5:

1. After a period of inactivity, the display goes to sleep even though I 
have the display sleeping disabled. The only way to get back in to the 
machine is to type control-alt F1 and ctrl-alt-f7.

2. The corners of all windows show up looking squared off. Something 
might be wrong with transparency?

3. When I open NVIDEA X Server Settings and click on OpenGL/GLX 
Information, X immediately restarts and I end up back at the logon screen.

None of these things happened when I used the Dell supplied version of 
RHEL4 that came with the machine. Ever since I installed RHEL 5 I have 
had these problems. I just used a generic version of the RHEL5 
Workstation version, and then installed the latest dkms and NVIDIA 
driver rpm from the linux.dell.com site.

Is there a better way for me to have a "Dell happy" version of RHEL5 on 
here? We already pay for RHEL5 directly through RedHat so I don't want 
to buy it from Dell.

Also, does Dell not officially support 32 bit RHEL? My choices for the 
nvidia drivers have always been a 64 bit RPM or a source RPM that I 
rebuild on my machine.

I tried to rebuild the src RPM that someone posted earlier in the week 
but the rebuild is not successful.

Any suggestions on how to deal with these issues?

Thanks

-John