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Lanman
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:58, Tango Echo wrote:
> Deek,
>
> I just installed a GForce FX 5600 recently dispite my
> elevated newbie quotient =)
>
> First you did remember to leave X Windows when you
> installed the nVidia driver, right? To get back your X
> environment you may want to try entering console mode
> (which doesn't seem to be a problem at this point),
> and running the command drakxconf. Choose the Geforce
> FX driver under display settings, and quit. For some
> reason 'Test Display' didn't work for me, so I'm not
> sure if I recommend that option.
>
> Lastly, you can always
>
> vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>
> to manually change it back...
> (If you're not familiar with vi, pressing 'i' will
> allow you to edit. ESC then :wq will write changes and
> quite (:q! will exit with out saving).
>
> Hope that is of some help - let us know how it goes!
>
>
> --- Deek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gah, another problem:
> > I just recently installed the nVidia driver for the
> > GForce FX graphics card for linux, and installation
> > and everything went fine, and it told me to change
> > the XF86Config file to use the new driver. And so I
> > did, and restarted the X server, and now what
> > happens is the screen flickers a couple of times,
> > and it give me an error message saying it couldn't
> > start X Server because the nVidia kernal failed to
> > initialize. So I go to it's documentation page, and
> > it says this isn't the fault of linux's kernal, but
> > it's the fault of the nVidia kernal, and could be
> > due to the fact that it's module isn't loaded. So,
> > using the terminal X Server-less, I browse to /sbin/
> > like it says and I do insmod nvidia, and then
> > modprobe nvidia. It loads successfully, but when I
> > start up X server ('xdm' in the command line) the
> > screen just goes blank, and I have to restart to get
> > out of it. I was also wanting to know if there is
> > any text editors that work without X Server, so
> > incase if theres nothing I can do about it I can
> > just edit the XF86Config back to what it was.
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
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