Hey James On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:31, James wrote: > Hello Jamie, > > I read your post to the debian-laptop list about trouble > getting your Nvidia Geoforce FX5200 to work with X free. > I'm using sarge/testing with a stock 2.4.22-1-386 kernel. > It has XFree87 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2..1-12.1) > and I'm pretty much having the same > troubles you expressed in your email. > > I also followed the thread and read: > > Change nv into nvidia in the XConfig... > > Did that work? I read that you had to download and compile > patches from Nvidia? Is that difficult without X running? > Has this bug been fixed? > > Any information or suggestions are most welcome. Sorry for the late reply, real life caught up with me... I tried that, and for you it'll probably work, but I was using a 2.6 kernel, which the nvidia modules don't support yet. If you have an nvidia card and want to use it with a 2.6 kernel there are two excellent resources which helped me: NVIDIA Linux Driver Patches / Tonne of info on NVIDIA drivers - http://www.minion.de Andrew's Debian-nVidia HOWTO - http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html Since you're using a 2.4.22 kernel you should be able to use XConfig and use the nvidia drivers without any trouble, the only reason I needed to download the patches was because I was using a 2.6 kernel. I've cc'd the list so if anyone comes across the thread, they have some pointers on how to proceed if they have the same problem I/you did. HTH -j -- -jamie <jamie@silverdream.org> | spamtrap: spam@silverdream.org w: http://silverdream.org | p: sms@silverdream.org pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key 19:30:01 up 2 days, 4:50, 7 users, load average: 0.46, 0.36, 0.39
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