Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I would suggest trying to download some specific nVidia drivers for your card. I have a GeForce4 and it would not work with the pre-compiled 'nv' driver. I first started X with 'vesa' driver, went to nVidia, downloaded driver for linux and installed it into my kernel. You have to change the XF86Config-4 file from driver "vesa" (or whatever you go to work) to "nvidia". You can download drivers from console by ftp to download.nvidia.com
...I just finished another clean installation of Debian 3.0 with net-installer (Sarge) and encountered starting xserver problem
Vedio card - WinFast GeForce2 MX
RAM - 32MB
driver chosen - nv
(--) Chipset GeForce2 MX/MX 400 found
(II) NV(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (insufficient memory for
mode)
(II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for
mode)
(WW) NV(0): Mode pool is empty
(EE) NV(0): No valid modes found
What I take from this: you're using the right driver for your card ("GeForce2 MX" does sound like an NVidia card, and 'nv' would be the right driver), and the X server finds your card, but doesn't realize there's memory available. (1024x768x32bpp would require exactly 3 MB of memory, which you should easily be able to handle.) If you look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, does it list the amount of memory that's being detected? If it's detecting wrong, you might need to add 'VideoRam 32768' in the "Device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; you also might be able to specify video memory manually in 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. (And if it asked you "how much memory" and you answered "32", that would cause this, though that's just speculation.)
-just my 2cents
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