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2003-07-17 Thread andy
( On the Nvidia forums, there are long-running threads related to several issues involving newer Nvida graphics cards. Just to list some suggestions: 1. If you are getting to the AGP section in your Xfree86.log file before you get locked up, in other words, the last line is Setting mode

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-16 Thread Lanman
Show Off! Grin! Grin! 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

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 05:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just installed a GForce FX 5600 recently I kill you. I swear, I kill you. How is it? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-16 Thread Tango Echo
Joe, this vid card rocks. I ended up going with the 256MB/Gainward option. Although I haven't tried too many games or settings, I've been quite impressed so far. One this I did do (on the XP side) was crank the anti-aliasing to 8x in an attempt to kill those jaggies. Decent improvement with 0%

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: pricewatch.com has the card listed for $150... this is actually how I purchased mine... christ! my wife paid 400 canadian for my GF3Ti at christmas! I am *not* showing her this e-mail :D -- Joehill Registered

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-16 Thread Deek
] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek 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

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-15 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek 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

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup

2003-07-15 Thread Pilagá
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