Dodol: Thanks for the help. My kernel is 2.6, the "sarge" distribution, so looks like I have to go to the nvidia website. The command you referenced- I didn't quite understand it. Was it:
apt-get nvidia-kernel-'uname -r', nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-glx all on one line (for future reference; trying to learn the intricacies of Debian Linux)? Thanks, Allen > -----Original Message----- > From: dodol garut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:05 PM > To: debian > Subject: Re: X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc. > > > --- Allen Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can't get X to work. Using a Micro-Star video card > > built on the nVidia > > GeForce FX chipset with an Optiquest Q110 monitor. > > The specs on the monitor > > are: Fh=30-97 khz, Fv=50-160 hz, with resolutions up > > to 1600x1200. Couldn't > > find a specific nVidia GeForce FX driver, so am > > using the "nv" generic > > nVidia driver. > > > > Under some modes, the display can be barely made > > out, lots of horizontal > > "jumping", hard to describe. In other modes, the > > screen is just black, or > > gdm tells me it can't start the X server, or the > > monitor tells me that Fv is > > out of range- 49 hz. > > > > I've monkeyed around a bunch with the XF86Config > > file to get the various > > effects mentioned above. Do I need a specific > > GeForce driver? How do I > > download and build XFree86 4.4.0 (the latest > > version? I'm new to Linux, > > although have lots of other Un*x experience). Can I > > download just a GeForce > > driver and build it? How (or please point me to a > > how-to)? > > which kernel you've been using ? > if you're using kernel under 2.6 then just apt-get > nvidia-kernel-'uname -r', nvidia-kernel-common, > nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-glx. > if you're using 2.6 kernel ( which i dunno if debian > already has a package for it...or else :-) ) you need > to download latest nvidia driver for linux on nvidia > website and build it. > if you dunno how you can search in this mailing list > archieve. there are already a bunch of it. > > cheers, > > me > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
