--- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > --- Glenn Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Heya, so here are my default ball park guesses > about > >> your problem. > >> > >> A) Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if the > >> driver for your video > >> card is nvidia > > > > The driver that I selected during installation was > > "nv" which I hope is the same as nvidia. > > No, it is not. "nv" is the open source driver for > nvidia cards that > comes with XFree. "nvidia" is the closed source > driver distributed by > Nvidia. > > >> B) Did you compile the nvidia drivers yourself or > >> did you use the kernel > >> driver? If you didnt do either i would hope on > >> nvidia's website and grab > >> the kernel driver and the GLX driver off of their > >> site. > > > > I think I used the kernel drivers. I tried to > install > > GLX driver for nvidia with dpkg but I got three > > dependency errors. I can send out the complete log > > file of XFConfig, but it is a bit lengthy. > > You need both the kernel _and_ the glx driver. > However, the new versions > of the driver are distributed with an installer. It > is only one file > that contains both drivers and is called > Nvidia-Linux*.run. > > If you want to install it, do the following: > > Install c compiler and kernel headers for the kernel > you are using. Make > a symlink /usr/src/linux => > /usr/src/kernel-headers-$yourkernel and run > the installation program of the driver. It will tell > you that it has to > compile a kernel module and will then intall the glx > libraries. It will > change your module configuration automatically so > that the nvidia > kernel driver is loaded automatically. Next, > configure your XFree to > use the nvidia X driver. Replace "nv" with "nvidia" > in your config file > or use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 for this. > > However, If you didn't do it, please first try to > turn off the Kernel > framebuffer option as Stephane already proposed. > Many nvidia cards > won't work if it is activated.
How exactly should I turn framebuffer off? I didn't find any item about framebuffer in XF86config-4 file. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > > -- > Andreas Janssen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 > Registered Linux User #267976 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]