On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 12:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently bought some new hardware intended to take me into the next few
> years and I am having problems getting Mandrake installed. I have a Soyo
> KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with 1024 megs ram, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600
> graphics card. I had to patch the installation kernel in order to install
> given the current framebuffer issues with high ram video cards and ~1024
> ram machines. I did get Linux installed and running except for X. I am
> now having problems trying to start X with the Nvidia graphics cards and
> drivers that come with Mandrake boxed set. When I try to start X, I get a
> blank display with nothing coming up. I don't think that the machine is
> locked up, I can ssh into it from another machine, but X just does not do
> anything and the display is completely blank. I have attached my Xfree log
> and config file here to help with troubleshooting. Does anyone have any
> suggestions that might help me get X working? TIA.
Well apart from a warning about not being able to read your monitors
capabilities from the hardware which could lead to not having many screen
resolutions available your log shows that it all came up and ought to be
working.
Is this a twin head card? could the display be on the other port?
To get X working you could use the Opensource "nv" driver.
Just edit the relevant parts of your XF86Config-4 like this :-
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
In fact I am wondering if some of those options you have in your current file
might be the cause of your problem?
You might like to try with this :
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
HTH
derek
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