On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:09:02PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm trying to set up Debian on a friend's computer since he's finally > decided to give up the evil M$ empire. He's got a GeForce 2 MX200 hooked > up to a Gateway FPD1500 flat-screen. (TFT) I compiled 2.4.17 for him and > got the latest NVidia drivers (2802) and using the latest Sid packages. > If I start it up using the "nv" driver, the screen flickers for a while > and then dies. If I start it up using the "nvidia" driver, everything > loads fine and I get the "NVidia" logo on the screen. Then the computer > just hard locks. Everything dies. No network connectivity, keyboard is > dead, no HD activity, etc. Very annoying. I've attached a copy of the... > dammit... my "eks" key just died on my laptop... hmm... "eks" as in > ""F86. Well, I've included a copy of ""F86Config-4. I commented out the > mouse lines since he's using a MS optical USB mouse and I haven't > configured USB yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -Ale""
Does /var/log/XFree86.0.log list any error messages? Since you have not yet configured USB, you may need to include Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" in ServerFlags section Assuming F86Config-4 should be setup to use nVidia driver, a couple of changes need to be made: > > ---Begin ""F86Config-4--- > > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION > # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, > the > # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. > # > # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. > # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) > # > # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make > changes > # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the > # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "GLcore" > Load "bitmap" > Load "dbe" > Load "ddc" > Load "dri" nVidia README says don't load GLcore and dri > Load "extmod" > Load "freetype" > Load "glx" > Load "int10" > Load "pex5" > Load "record" > Load "speedo" > Load "type1" > Load "vbe" > Load "xie" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > #Section "InputDevice" > # Identifier "Configured Mouse" > # Driver "mouse" > # Option "CorePointer" > # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > # Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > # Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > #EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "nv" Change "nv" to "nvidia" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic Monitor" > HorizSync 30-57 > VertRefresh 43-72 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Generic Video Card" > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > DefaultDepth 16 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 1 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 4 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > # InputDevice "Configured Mouse" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > ### END DEBCONF SECTION > > ---End ""F86Config-4--- -- Jerome
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