[SOLVED] Anyone know how to fix a nvidia slackware problem?

darkstarbyte · 12-25-2010, 10:54 PM

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.

dE_logics · 12-25-2010, 11:45 PM

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

darkstarbyte · 12-26-2010, 12:32 AM

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.

darkstarbyte · 12-26-2010, 01:08 AM

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.

darkstarbyte · 12-26-2010, 01:58 AM

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

darkstarbyte · 12-26-2010, 02:20 AM

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.

dE_logics · 12-27-2010, 04:10 AM

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.

darkstarbyte · 12-27-2010, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dE_logics

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.