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Anyone know how to fix a nvidia slackware problem?

I installed the slackware nvidia driver and the kernel patch and it won't recognize my screen for some reason. Well that's at least what it says.

You installed the drivers from the repos? Which patch did you apply?

I applied the default one in slackbuilds. I did some reading and I changed some values in the xorg.conf file I will post the results and what I did if it works.

What I tried didn't work.

What I did was I ran X -config and ran from that file it created and it didn't work. Any suggestions. I could compile the slackware kernel I configured and run from that instead of a live cd, but that would take a hour to compile.

Here is my xorg.conf file.

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig:  version 256.44  (buildmeister@builder97.nvidia.com)  Thu Jul 29 02:00:07 PDT 2010



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier    "Layout0"

    Screen      0  "Screen0"

    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

EndSection



Section "Files"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"

    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier    "Mouse0"

    Driver        "mouse"

    Option        "Protocol" "auto"

    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"

    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default

    Identifier    "Keyboard0"

    Driver        "kbd"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

    Identifier    "Monitor0"

    VendorName    "Unknown"

    ModelName      "Unknown"

    HorizSync      31.5 - 50.0

    VertRefresh    40.0 - 90.0

    Option        "DPMS"

EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier    "Device0"

    Driver        "nvidia"

    VendorName    "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Screen0"

    Device        "Device0"

    Monitor        "Monitor0"

    DefaultDepth    24

    SubSection    "Display"

        Depth      24

    EndSubSection

EndSection

I do know a little about this driver. One it's a Geforce 5300 or something. It has two vga ports on it for two monitors. Next it's not new. It has 256 megs of ram. Next I got it for free. Last two things it's made by Nvidia, and the nv 2d driver works on it.

OOOK... so it's 5300, it's a legacy product.

You need to install 1xx version, the latest is 2xx, dont install that.

See your card here.

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Originally Posted by dE_logics (Post 4204078)

OOOK... so it's 5300, it's a legacy product.

You need to install 1xx version, the latest is 2xx, dont install that.

See your card here.

Earlier today I was reading the readme and I did find this out also. I was just getting time to reply. I was unsure, thanks for the reinsurance.