infiniphunk
03-17-2005, 09:50 PM
I recently bought a brand new video card;Nvidia GeForce 5500 OC from BFG. This one (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316274&pfp=BROWSE)
I use proMepis b4 2.6.10. When I first installed the card, I reinstalled mepis and everything worked fine; it installed the driver, I had the nvidia boot-screen and everything worked great. Now its the March break and I had VB assignments to do, so I decided I had to move the partitions around on my disc so that my windows partition had some more room on it. So I had to reinstall all my OS's; no problem, so I thought. So I reinstalled mepis and this time, for some reason, it will not install the nvidia driver, no matter what I try. I have googled, I have searched Justlinux and I have followed several tutorials to try and get things going. No luck. I learned how to config and install a new kernel along the way! That's the great news! But still, no matter what I try, just can't get this grphx card to work. Arrgghh! Now I really think its something wrong with the hardware. I mean, why would mepis install the driver fine the first time but not now? Plus, its doing some things that seem a bit sketchy. Have any of you had this kind of thing happen? Any similar horror stories? Good thing the card has lifetime waranty, cause I'm sending it back tomorrow.
I use proMepis b4 2.6.10. When I first installed the card, I reinstalled mepis and everything worked fine; it installed the driver, I had the nvidia boot-screen and everything worked great. Now its the March break and I had VB assignments to do, so I decided I had to move the partitions around on my disc so that my windows partition had some more room on it. So I had to reinstall all my OS's; no problem, so I thought. So I reinstalled mepis and this time, for some reason, it will not install the nvidia driver, no matter what I try. I have googled, I have searched Justlinux and I have followed several tutorials to try and get things going. No luck. I learned how to config and install a new kernel along the way! That's the great news! But still, no matter what I try, just can't get this grphx card to work. Arrgghh! Now I really think its something wrong with the hardware. I mean, why would mepis install the driver fine the first time but not now? Plus, its doing some things that seem a bit sketchy. Have any of you had this kind of thing happen? Any similar horror stories? Good thing the card has lifetime waranty, cause I'm sending it back tomorrow.