On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so > long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use > them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I > found the link on the xorg site. It wasn't very useful for me. I do > have xf86-video-nv installed tho. I thought that was it. However, > when I change the driver in xorg.conf to nv, no more GUI.
Instead of editing xorg.conf, move it out of the way and let X figure things out for itself. You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 2: Exact estimate
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