Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

[Raiz_mpx <Rthoreau@iwon.com>]

> From: Scarletdown <gsutton9503@charter.net>
> Date: Today 03:38:30
>
> I managed to manually compile the drivers.  Now, when I go to set up 
>my 
>video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose 
>from. 
>Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX.  So the 
>question to anyone here who also uses this card...
>Which one do I select from the list?
>
>Is this considered a GeForce-2, or a GeForce-3 (Rev. 1, 2, or 3), or 
>what?

The Geforce 5600 FX is considered a Geforce FX, I guess you are making 
your XF86config-4 file, with Debconf?  If you use the Nvidia driver it 
will know what card you have, as long as you use the right driver.  
The identifer in XF86config-4 really doesn't care what name you use.
You could name it really anything, but the driver should be nvidia, and 
your BusID should be what is used on your motherboard.

This is taken from my device section of my XF86config-4 file.

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Geforce fx 5600 ultra"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        BusID           "PCI:01:05:00"
EndSection

You might be able to leave off the BusID section, but in my case it 
would not recognize my card and kept giving me no screen found errors.  

Also I am glad you got your nvidia driver to compile, I ended up editing 
the Makefile in /usr/nv and adding the lines IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH at the 
top of the Makefile then running the script nvidia install script 
again.  

happy holidays;

Rthoreau