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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