Thank you, downloading the nvidia driver worked. Things were still a little quirky (desktop running off screen) and I couldn't figure out what exactly was the cause (I had made so many changes while troubleshooting before) so I ended up reinstalling mandrake then reinstalling the nvidia drivers once more. Now things are finally working as they should -- I think =) so far so good.
-T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick Emans Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: [newbie] i need xf86config help ! Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >July 7, 2002 11:50 am, Tania Morell wrote: >> I'm trying to get x running on my new laptop. It's a Toshiba satellite >> s501 which has a gforce 440 go video chip and a 15.0" high resolution >> SXGA+ TFT screen.. >> >> If anybody has anything even remotely resembling this, I'd LOVE to see >> your xf86config-4 config file. I'm running out of ideas here =( >> even if the screen is the same but the video different, that would help >> tons too. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -T >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Never done it personally Tania but will this help? > >http://www.slonet.org/~araul/linux/toshiba.htm > >I see lots of 'help' for other models using the Intel chipset but the only >things that a Google search turned up for the NVidia chipset was in French >and it was for someone using Mandrake 8.1. That shouldn't matter much but do >you read and understand French? > >Good luck. >-- >Charlie >Edmonton,AB,Canada >Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org >A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. > -- Whitney Balliett > > Tania: NVidia makes some propietary drivers for their chips, and provide free downloads of them for Linux. Most users will say that they provide the most robust video performance for their chips. The drivers are common to all their devices. They are somewhat tricky for a newbie to set up; the most reliable way I found was utilizing scapegoat's tutorial: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiarpm.php nick -- nickE __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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