Gah, sorry you guys, I've been busy soo I haven't been able to reply. When
you said to change the glx, I did, and no improvements: It still gives me
the black screen of death.Let me just reply to all of the messages in this
one post.
(Try this way: enter BIOS Setup and enable: 'Assign IRQ to VGA')
That was set wayy back when I first got the card, so we know that's not the
problem. Or is it?
(>
> I just installed a GForce FX 5600 recently
I kill you. I swear, I kill you.
How is it?)
Actually, It's a GForce FX 5600 Ultra. I can play SOME games with it, but I
don't plan on playing games like UT or CS, which could probably play
flawlessly in this. But when I tested it with 3DMark (graphcis card testing
program for Windows) it failed horribly. But then again, my computer specs
were way under the requirements XD.
> Deek,
>
> I just installed a GForce FX 5600 recently dispite my
> elevated newbie quotient =)
>
> First you did remember to leave X Windows when you
> installed the nVidia driver, right? To get back your X
> environment you may want to try entering console mode
> (which doesn't seem to be a problem at this point),
> and running the command drakxconf. Choose the Geforce
> FX driver under display settings, and quit. For some
> reason 'Test Display' didn't work for me, so I'm not
> sure if I recommend that option.
>
> Lastly, you can always
>
> vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>
> to manually change it back...
> (If you're not familiar with vi, pressing 'i' will
> allow you to edit. ESC then :wq will write changes and
> quite (:q! will exit with out saving).
>
> Hope that is of some help - let us know how it goes!
>
Already tried that. Didn't work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup
> On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek wrote:
> > Gah, another problem:
> > I just recently installed the nVidia driver for the GForce FX graphics
card
> > for linux, and installation and everything went fine, and it told me to
> > change the XF86Config file to use the new driver. And so I did, and
> > restarted the X server, and now what happens is the screen flickers a
> > couple of times, and it give me an error message saying it couldn't
start X
> > Server because the nVidia kernal failed to initialize. So I go to it's
> > documentation page, and it says this isn't the fault of linux's kernal,
but
> > it's the fault of the nVidia kernal, and could be due to the fact that
it's
> > module isn't loaded. So, using the terminal X Server-less, I browse to
> > /sbin/ like it says and I do insmod nvidia, and then modprobe nvidia. It
> > loads successfully, but when I start up X server ('xdm' in the command
> > line) the screen just goes blank, and I have to restart to get out of
it. I
> > was also wanting to know if there is any text editors that work without
X
> > Server, so incase if theres nothing I can do about it I can just edit
the
> > XF86Config back to what it was. Thanks.
>
> Yes you could just edit the file back again, but its likely you can get it
> working quite easily.
>
> In your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file instead of the line
> Load "glx"
> make it
> Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"
>
> That will probably fix it. If not post the contents of your
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> HTH
>
> derek
>
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