Video card: Nvidia GeForce4 ti4200 with Slackware 8.1

I have a list of 800 video chipsets to choose from while configuring X but which do I choose? The only Nvidia one is GeForce, and when I used that there was no color at console (blue for dirs) and X wouldn't start (after selecting linux in LILO screen just went blank with no console or the scrolling screen of things being set up like eth0). I'm not looking for 3D acceleration, just to get X up and running. First time Slack user and been trying to figure out different configs to get a gui for a few days now.

Also, Slackware.com says to use SuperProbe to determine video card info, but I keep getting bash: command not found (yes I was root).

This may be stupid to ask, but I've just switched to slack and I'm only use to SuSE and Red Hat, which autoconfigures X.

The superprobe command was from X version 3 if I recall correctly. Slack 8.0 was the last Slack distro with X version 3.

I would recommend using the VESA default file, /etc/X11/XF86Config-vesa. Copy it to the X config file and then edit if required for your mouse.

cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-vesa /etc/X11/XF86Config

It defaults to the device of /dev/mouse I think and if you set that to your mouse device then it should at least work without editing the file. You can edit the file to provide more features if desired. Try the following;

For PS/2 port: ln -sf /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
For USB port: ln -sf /dev/input/mouse0 /dev/mouse

You should now be able to startx.

Perhaps it will at least get it working for you.

you shouldn't choose any. you should downlado the closed nasty non-gpl driver at http://nvidia.com and read their docs to help you install it.

Thanks guys. I got it up and working as I'm using it now to post.