On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:31 pm, peter Nikolic wrote:
I had similar once with the Desktop box here and found the fault in XF86Config ,,,
Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce FX5200" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "sw_cursor" Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV" Option "NvAGP" "3" Screen 0 VendorName "NVidia" EndSection
the three option lines may need looking into as above ..
Pete .
OK, I'm finally up again after my 4th reinstall. I have not accepted the nvidia driver update from YOU, so the display at least works but has the problem of a completely screwed up display on the console once X is started (switching back with ctrl-alt-f1 gives an unreadable display that rapidly scrolls up the screen). Same on shutdown.
So, how do I change the settings in XF86config? Sax2 doesn't give all of the possible options. The XF86config file itself is plastered with notices NOT to manually edit the file.
What's the correct way to fiddle with the settings to see if I can get this display problem fixed before I try downloading the nvidia driver update?
Scott Dude your are not the first with this problem, all of my systems with 4X agp do this. I found that you manually download the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia, which is what the script does anyway. switch the system to init 3 from a terminal as root. cd in the directory where you download the Nvidia instaler to and run it with sh nvi...... . then before you start X vi /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and go to
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 03:25, Scott Leighton wrote: the device section. In there change the driver "nv" to "nvidia" and add a line Option "NvAGP" "1" directly below it, save the file exit, run "sync" so that if it freezes you don't get file system corruption if it does freeze. Then type X if it starts without freezing you Aok, <ctrl>-<alt><backspace> to exit "X" the init 5 back to your Gui There is a comprehensive Readme in /usr/share/doc/Nvidia check it out. Cheers
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