At 05:55 AM 3/3/2005, Hänel Matthias wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for your help. Finally, I got it working now. I followed Carls approach with two main differences. I needed the latest driver patches from nvidia (28.02.2005 comulative patch) and I told the sax2 that there is no generic device, but a Geforce 6600 Nvidia graphics card. After this the xserver is starting up properly, but after X was started I cann't get back to text mode. Anyways, it works now. I'll see if I can get textmode working. It may be better on a development machine ;)
best regards Matthias .........................
Glad to hear it Hanel. I did forget one important step in the process in case others are following this thread. While still in init 3 run the command "modprobe nvidia". I have ugraded my nvidia driver with the cumulative patch as well. Now to the minor details - I also can not return to text mode properly, just random flashing lines. The "watch/timer" that appears next to the cursor in KDE when the system is busy doesn't render properly & finally, I get a totally wacked out splash screen just as X loads. I've been searching the nvidia forums http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 & come across some good information as well. It sounds like nvidia is aware of many of these problems and is working to correct them. I'm pretty sure the bad splash screen is the one that's supposed to display "NVIDIA" & that there is an option to turn it off. I just have to look that up in the readme again. If you find a fix for any of these (especially the text thing) please post. Carl