Re: nvidia

["Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt@StonyBrook.Edu>]

I have the same setup (but just switched to progeny).  Do a 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.  Select the "nv" driver (unless you 
installed the drivers from nvidia).

Tim

Matt Fair wrote:

> Yes, I got the .deb of X4 from deselect and installed it.
> When I tried to start X I got the error like it could not load screen.
> I do not remember the exact error though.
> Matt
>
> Terry Warner wrote:
>
>
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:39:44AM -0500, Matt Fair babbled:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I just got a new computer from Dell.  It came with Red Hat so the first
> > > thing I did was uninstalled it and put Debian on it because it is so
> > > much easier to manage.  The problem I was having was to get XFree86 to
> > > work with my nVidia GeForce2 GTS .
> > > I downloaded the linux module for XFree86, but when I was loading X it
> > > couldn't find the card.
> > > Has anyone gotten this card to work in debian?
> > > Thanks
> > > Matt
> >
> > Just for my benefit, you do have X4 installed, and you did get the nvidia binarys right?
> >
> > Whats the full error msg, if you can send it to me I might be able to help a bit more.
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > //Terry Warner//
> > twarner@netlabs.net
> > Senior Technical Associate
> > Internet Labs
> > (732) 264-3111
> > http://netlabs.net


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