Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

[David Krider]

Mike Chambers wrote:

If the card isn't supported or not detected correctly, it defaults to the
vesa driver to at least help you get a running system.

Mike

1) Again, it correctly told me that the cards were generic nVidia GeForce 4 and GeForce 2 cards, respectively.

2) Using the VESA driver DID NOT WORK. I had to change the driver to "nv" by hand at a command prompt.

dk



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