At Tuesday, 16 April 2002, Dennis Curnow` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>G'Day Gang,
>
>I have upgraded to a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB Graphics AGP Card and
AMD K6-2 300
>Mhz with 64 M ram.
>
>The graphical install goes well until it comes to the x configuration.
>It probes the card ok
>but I can't find a setting that dosn't lock up the system.
>The monitor shows about the top 25% of the screen with just hash
but the
>cross type
>mouse cursor is there and I can move it over the whole screen. The
cursor
>is quite clear.
>The screen during the install is excellent with good resolution
and screen
>size.
>Is there a default video setting that setup uses that perhaps I
can put
>in at x config time?
Try using the default SVGA server to start with, and something like
640X480 resolution. If you are using the Xfree 4 series, there should
be an "nv" driver for nvidia cards, that will be the one you want
in the end.
For the Xfree 3 series, I think it's just the SVGA server only.
Then, depending on how confident you are, check out the documentation
for getting your card to work with 3d and other acceleration features.
Go the the nvidia site, find the Linux drivers and download and READ
THE DOCUMENTATION. It gives a good course on what works, and how
to fix common problems. If you are using Debian, there are packages
which help in the download and build process, USE THEM, they work
good, and eliminate a whole heap of problems.
('apt-cache search nvidia' should get you somewhere)
You can find my liberally commented /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 here:
http://helmsdeep.net/capn-k/?sub=linux&id=dotfiles
Learn to love your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, read all about it at the
www.xfree86.org website.
Steve
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