At 9:35 pm, Wednesday, April 2 2003, Roger Salisbury mumbled:
> I'm trying to install a
> Nvidia: Diamond Viper 770 ..... RIVATNT2
> Video Adapter.
> on a Woody debian system. The $5 disk at the SLUG AGM.
> No Joy getting it to work above 800/600 resolution with "vga" or "nv" drivers.
> OK then: load the lasted & try!
> Got latest CVS tree from info at www.xfree86.org ..... "cvs checkout -A xc"
> But can't finalise the install!
> I have produced the last 16 lines of output.
>
Okay, pulling in the CVS tree is a bad idea. It takes hours to build X, and
Branden Robinson (Debian's fearless X maintainer) spends *ages* making
everything just right with Debian's X setup. Can I suggest you paste the
error when you try and use the nv driver?
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Steve
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