How can i load the vesa driver at bootup in Grub? Or, help w/ video card.
 

I completed the driver download for my Geforce Nvidia card in Kanotix, but the xserver would not boot up into graphical mode.
I have changed the xorg.conf file to what it is supposed to be and had no problem installing the driver.
What i am looking for is a way to type something in at boot, or equivalent, that will force the vesa driver, so that in turn, i may experiment until I find out what is wrong.
If, on the other hand, there is a proccess somebody can walk me through that will install and set up the driver correctly, then that would also be nice.
I am triple booting with windows and Mepis, and the driver install went fine in mepis after installing xorg-dev. Thank you for any help recieved.

NVidia supply an installer for linux - did you use that?
There is also an "install-nvidia-debian.sh" script for kanotix.

Possibly like this:... I think ...

To force the vesa driver, I think you just type "vesa" at the boot: prompt

Of course, whenever you edit a default (working) configuration file, you should always create a backup, in this case: "cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.old", before editing.

This way, should anything go wrong, all you gotta do is "cp xorg.conf.old xorg.conf" and you have a working x display again :)

I did use the installer, but knew nothing about the script. I'll try that now as well and let you know.

Ok. I followed the script directions and believe they worked well, . . except; when I finished and went to init 5 the flash screen for nvidia came up for about 1 second (this was good!) and then reverted back to terminal ( this wasn't).
The message said:
starting k display manager (kdm). Not starting x display manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager.

I then rebooted. Got the same message. I then logged in as root and typed startx and here is the message I got:

Fatal server error. Could not open default font 'fixed'. x10 fatal io error 104 (connection reset by peer) on xserver :0.0 after 0 requests(o known processed) with 0 events remaining.



I am/was using KDE and KDM . . . . I am, at this point lost, but very good at following directions.

Problem solved i used This Guide Ö http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debia...-dri-howto.txt Worked reallz well Ö= Thank zou for zour help. i was lost without it.

Yeah - I sent someone else with nvidia issues to the debian howto. I wasn't sure if it would work for kanotix - apparently it did - well done.