+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 Small problem.... I'm just installing NVIDIA Geforce Drivers onto My Mandrake 9.1 Install I changed to Runlevel 3 Opeded VI with the XF86... File Used "i" to insert the change Driver "vesa"to driver "nvidia" Now the problem is i cant remember the comand to save & quit out of VI ?? :blush: *getting ready to kick myself* Thanks Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 OK discovered tht "ZZ" saves and closes VI onto the next problem now the system boots up fine using Driver "vesa" but when Driver "nvidia" is used my system boots up into a shellI logged in as root and typed "X" to start X and got the following error (EE) Nvidia(0): Falied to initiade Nvidia Kernal Module (EE) Nvidia(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) : Found, but none have usuable configuration Fatal Error: No Screns Found Any ideas... it works fine when i change the driver back to vesa... Thanks Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Why don't you just type xf86config as root in the console and reconfigure the entire file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 Newish to linux.... I followed the instrctions in the nvidia install notes..... and for some reason the X windows thing doesnt start... I'll play around with it some more and see wht happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finsta Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 For starting X, use startx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt3rn4tiv3 Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Not sure if this will help.. I think you need to install the kernel headers which should be in one of your installation cds.. the file shld be something like "kernel-2.6.2-12mdk.rpm" so.. # rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/path/to/kernel-headers-2.6.2-12mdk.rpm shld do the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 yeh i have all the kernal files installed on my system, I believe its the Nvidia kernal module thats casuing the problem.... i'm going to update my kernal files and see if that does the trick. 150mb download though, which is 40 ~50 min download.... o yeh i'm only running kernal 2.4.21-0.19 (not sure about the -bit but its something like tht)..... havnt picked up the guts to kill my 9.1 install trying to upgrade to 2.6 yet :p *needs to do some reading on how to upgrade the kernal first :p* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt3rn4tiv3 Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 opps, my mistake, i assumed u were using mandrake 10 :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 I was using 1.0 community... but there was tons of problems arising... so i jus put my 9.1 copy on. I'm waiting for the Official release of 10.0 to come out before i think about upgradeing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 Well it was the kernal module as i thought... once i upgraded my kernal from 2.4.1.0.13 to 2.4.1.0.29 the nivida installer compiled the kernal modules and once the xf86config-4 file was editied it work Thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 25, 2004 Not sure where you are at on this, but here goes... Relevant part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "nVidia GeForce 2 Go" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 Option "NoLogo" "on" SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection (note the use of Option "NoLogo" "on" to get rid of the annyoing nVidia splash every time you change resolutions in X. And, if you are in runlevel 3 (text mode), you can use startx to start X, as was previously mentioned. Or you can issue an "init 5" to switch to runlevel 5, which should start up X for you, if everything else is set up properly. If you are stuck somewhere, just post what is happening.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 25, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 25, 2004 Yeh thanks.... i had already managed it.. for some reason the nvidia installer handnt installed the nvidia kernal module properly... but after a kernal update it managed to compile the module fine. P.s Thanks for the noLogo tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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