Its been a while so i'll refresh your memory rather than chase down the thread . i had a strange problem with a nvidia splash screen that wouldnt go away when the glx driver was enabled rendering the desktop unusable with the nv6629 ver. in the later 2.6.xx Mepis releases . the ECS N2U400-A board with a supposedly nvidia gforce FX4000 chipset just would not work with 3D even compiling the driver straight from nvidia , a real pita ! while trying diffrent hardware to pin down the absoloutely infuriating lack of performance and the video problem i dropped a screwdriver making it a coaster that led to this bit of interesting info . not being positive the board was dead i pulled a K7T266 PRO2-A MSI backup board from the closet to test the rest of the hardware . every thing goes well till we get to installing the video card driver and my favorite install disk that strips all previous drivers to make for a clean setup says install halted no nvidia chips found . naturally im thinkin what the hell is this ?? about that time the light comes on , could it have been the video card causing the problem all along ? you betcha !! i skip the driver install and start installing Mepis 3.3 test3 . right from the start there's a problem with partitions Mepis wont let me pick a drive it says none in the dropdown box with no other choices . now what ?? i know there are partitions available , i made four near 20 gig with a 600 meg spot for swap with maxiblast when i started with this new 60 gig maxtor drive . apparrently linux sees something with this it doesnt like , possibly explaining some of the strange posts i've read on the forum . to get around this and save time i use a man. 9.1 install disk to partition & format the drive , then Mepis shows the part. and we go on with the install , and on with the install till i leave it running and go to bed . next morning it says there was an error in OO that will probably be repaired later or to that effect . every thing seems ok so i click enable the nvidia driver in control center it compiles the glx driver & installs it and tells me to reboot to finish the install . Yep , problem back nothing but nvidia splash screen , desktop unusable . at this point im wondering if i got a bad burn & a fuzzed install so i install 3.3test2 that works well on other box with no problems to test disk etc. with same results . next step is reburn at half speed and reinstall SM 3.3 test3 , it goes faster this time so the disk might have had a bad spot but video results are the same , unusable splash screen . now we can test another card to see if hunch is correct and it IS , the unworkable video system now works with a known friendly nvidia card . with no changes to the install, just shut it down & replaced the card . goes to show ya ya never know with with these buggers till you spend days testing . others may be aware of this inconsistency with nvidia cards but its a new one on me ! maybe this will save some a real pita though . the distributor-maker of this card is BFG tech. inc , its called an asylum , probably cause it will drive you nuts screwin with it ! if there's any other info needed in connection with this problem its easily reproducable , in fact i would gladly donate it to some one with the expertise to dig out a more knowledgable explanation of the malady . regards jim
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