nVidia card drivers

[RonaldRaygun]

Ok, i know this has been posted a lot but i need some help. I have followed all the instructions in the read me file to install the drivers for my nVidia GeForce 2 MX card. When i try to start X i get an errror that tells me no screens found. On closer inspection, it tells me screens found, but non with a usable configuration. I am using vi to edit my XF86Config-4 file. Someone showed my there screens part of there file, so i used his as a guide to add screens that i thought were correct. Well it didn't work, i got the same message. I can show you the error log for X and my XF86Config-4 file, but i dont know how to

a: print them from the command line. I got a printer hooked up but i dont know the commands to say print this.

b:copy them onto my windows partition. Can windows read the file extensions?

ill post more later but any help i can get on this subject would be great.

[RonaldRaygun]

Ok, i mounted my windows partition and just copied the file across. Here it is, does anyone see any problems with it. The bottom part about screens is messed up, i added somemore lines, removed, and tried some other things.


# XFree86 4.2.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator 4.10.7

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use the xfs font server for improved
# interactive performance

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
# Load "record" # X event recorder
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler
# Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Gateway EV700"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0-70.0
VertRefresh 50.0-120.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
Driver "fbdev"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
Monitor "Gateway EV700"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection


EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[pvera]

That happened to me with Debian 3/Woody and a GeForce2 MX2-400. The problem is you are giving it one or more parameters for the monitor and/or the graphics card that it does not like. In my case it did not give a crap that the monitor can do 1280x1024@60, it just refused to run until I switched it to 1024x768. Funny thing is SuSe 8 never complained. It just disabled the resolution it did not like and it ran like a champ.

[jiggolo182]

i created this forum and had more than enough people trying to help me. i am running redhat7.3 on an i686 with a geforce2 ti nvidia graphics card. i will also attach my XF86Config-4 file for you to use as a reference....

link to my post:

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55503&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

and heres my XF86Config-4 file...

good luck,
brandon