John B wrote:
Heya gang,
I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? If the XF86Config that worked is still available, copy it across to this disk. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, it may reveal the cause. 9.2 installs can go any way from great to pear-shaped. After installing 6629, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I changed Driver "nv" to "nvidia", but that didn't work, so in the vesa section, I kept playing with changing Driver "fbdev" to "nvidia" and eventually got a display. I've since made a new xorg.conf using xorgconfig as the display defaulted to 640x480 for all Modes frequencies in the original, because it somehow picked up the wrong Horiz and Vert frequecies or may be finger trouble on my part.
Addition check =============== lsmod|grep nvidia -- to check the module gets loaded.
Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that.
Thanks for any help,
John
The original xorg.conf had sections on vga, vesa, fbdev etc., the one I've generated is more like what I expected to see. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====