On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:33:41 GMT Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga > required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then from a > root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a result was a > black screen with speckles (not x's grey screen), with a set of > blinking underlines. My guess is I was looking at a brief paragraph or > sentence followed by a cursor, that recycled and lacked a proper > horizontal sync. xserver-svga is XFree86 3.3.6. You need XFree 4.x, which is provided by xserver-xfree86. In addition, NVIDIA doesn't release specifications so that XFreee volunteers can figure out how to write drivers for their cards. You need the NVIDIA driver files from their web site. (Debian has packages for this, but at this point they will likely to be more confusion than they're worth.) Follow the instructions in the NVIDIA readmes EXACTLY. (When they refer to a "fully configured kernel source tree", they mean one in which you've done "make ?config" and "make dep".) The "nv" driver of XFree does provide a basic 2D driver that works for my GeForce2, but I don't know if it will work for GeForce3. This seems difficult to figure out at first (I lost some hair over it), but once you've figured it out, you can do it in 30 seconds. (And you will need to do it every time you install a new kernel.) Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
