Hello,I see that you are using a Geforce 4 in a debian woody system. the Xfree86 along with the stable distro does
I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am
learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned
the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel
get all the packages that seemed relevant. Somehow I missed choosing
XFree86 (I think), initially. dselect along with the debian reference
manual helped me fix that (by installing x-window-system-core,
xfree86-common, etc). During the setup process I selected GeForce as my
video card. startx did work - XFree86.0.log told me the error was: (EE)
No devices detected. Googling for "GeForce4 debian configuration" gave me hits - the first one indicated that I must:
not support the GF4. so you better get the latest nvidia drivers for linux from nvidia.com and install it.
that should( no, will ;-) clear up your problem.
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