Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Chad Johnson
I had to install the kernel source to do this, for which I used: apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 I unzipped it and left it in /usr/src. Now when I try to do the step specified in the README for nvidia-kernel-src documentation, i.e., make-kpkg modules_image I get a message telling me that

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:00:11PM +0100, Joakim Hove wrote: > Another tip when you are battling X startup problems: > > bash% startx 2> /tmp/x.error > > will send standard error to a file, so you can view this in peace. What will this file contain, that /var/log/XFree86.log does not? I've se

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Chad Johnson wrote: > I have done that, but X still fails to start. > > Chad Take a look at /usr/share/doc/, there should be two folders under there for those two packages, telling you what to do next. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Chad Johnson
I have done that, but X still fails to start. Chad John Mitchell wrote: On Sunday 02 February 2003 14:33, Chad Johnson wrote: So where exactly would I go to get these drivers? I know they have GNU/Linux drivers posted on NVIDIA's website, but they are packaged as RPMs - I was under the assu

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread John Mitchell
On Sunday 02 February 2003 14:33, Chad Johnson wrote: > So where exactly would I go to get these drivers? I know they have > GNU/Linux drivers posted on NVIDIA's website, but they are packaged as > RPMs - I was under the assumption that Debian used a different packaging > method, namely DEB. Am I

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Joakim Hove
> I was under the assumption that Debian used a different > packaging method, namely DEB. That is correct! > can Debian use the RPMs from that site? I can not speak for these particular packages, but I have at least had good experience with "alien" on the video drivers for my videocard (which

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Chad Johnson
You'll need to get ahold of and install the nvidia drivers, or i _think_ moving to unstable might work, but it's better to go with the drivers So where exactly would I go to get these drivers? I know they have GNU/Linux drivers posted on NVIDIA's website, but they are packaged as RPMs - I wa

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Johnson wrote: > /var/log/XFree86.0.log, a line towards the very end states that "Primary > Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected" - which seems kind of This is normal, they all say pci, even for agp > odd, since my card uses an AGP slot (GeForce 4 Ti4600). th

XFree86 display problems

2003-02-01 Thread Chad Johnson
When I boot into Debian, it tries to start a desktop (I believe I have it set to gdm), but the screen just flashes a few times and then gives me an error message and tells me to look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. I tried using startx to no avail (it exhibited similar behavior - the screen just fl