Greetings Smart Masses/

I have entered a few somewhat similar posts in the last few days, albeit every time I gain a little ground I hit another obstacle.

A little hardware info;
Sony Trinitron multiscan 200 GS
Asus A8v deluxe motherboard
AMD athlon 64 3400+ cpu
xfx nvidia Geforce 6600gt graphics card
Chaintech 7.1 sound card
usb keyboard and mouse

And a little software info;
Novell SuSE LINUX 9.2 pro
linux kernel version ; 2.6

Between the huge administration guide, O'rielly's linux in a nutshell and pocket guide I am learning a lot. I just can't see subscribing to Windows way of thinking any more. Why should I buy software to delete malware made by the same company?


Anyway, in trying to get my graphics card and monitor to work in other than generic mode. I was confronted with " 3D acceleration does not work in multi head environment". I am only using one monitor so, why this message and why does my bios start up screen say no bios is installed.

I appreciate all the replies I have recieved, but if anyone would be kind enough to guide me to success I would be greatful. You can E-mail me at;

newton3433@bellsouth.net.


I am looking forward to being windows free ASAP.

Thank you in advance,
wmnewton

You will need to copy the contents of your XF86Config, your XF86Config-4, or your xorg.conf (as appropriate) file here in order to sort that one out.

Anyway, in trying to get my graphics card and monitor to work in other than generic mode. I was confronted with " 3D acceleration does not work in multi head environment". I am only using one monitor so, why this message and why does my bios start up screen say no bios is installed.

wmnewton [/B][/QUOTE]

When the system boots?! I. e. you turn it on and it says no BIOS?

That could mean serious hardware problems totally outside the purview of Linux, or any operating system.

Greetings Smart Masses,

Under advisement of Mr. or Ms. rylan I went to pc mechanic.com and discovered that my onboard raid controller was causing the bios message. The nvidia geforce6600gt video card made it's presence known as well. This only brings me back to my origional problem. whenever I try to configure the graphics card and or the monitor the &&^%&^%)_)( &^*&&$## screen keeps going blank! What else do I need to do. My head is getting really sore from banging it against my keyboard.


Thank you,
wmnewton

Any info in X-logfiles in /var/log/ ?

And please post the relevant sections of you X configuration (usually at the end of the file)

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Hi

When you try to configure it where? During operating system install? Manually from an Xterm in 80x25 text mode? When you are -already- in Xwindows?

More detail will help a lot...

Regards,

If that's the contents of log-files or configuration-files, you have a serious problem

He has been asked 3 times now to post logs so we can figure this out.

No logs yet.

I'm unsubscribing the thread.

Greetings smart masses/

Please excuse my ignorance regarding your requests. Being a neophyte as far as linux is concerned I wasn't sure how to find what you were asking for. I did RTFM though and on page 144 it clearly states that for copyright reasons, Nvidia did not provide a driver for my graphics card. I have to go to their web sight and download it. Since the beginning of this endeavor I have purchased several books from O'Reilly . At first I was hunting through them for information to solve my issues. I have since decided to read them all, all the way through.

Thank all who have responded and tried to help. I look forward to learning more from this and other valuable sources.

Sincerely ,
wmnewton

Greetings Smart Masses,

Well please don't be ashamed of me, but, I took my tower down to my friendly neighborhood linux expert and he configured my graphics card driver and now I have screaming 3-D graphics. After he installed the development and C,C++ compiler packages he downloaded the driver from Nvidia.com.Then he installed it and made a small change to Sax2 and now it works. Well, it worked then I went on-line and downloaded the newest upgrade package and nvidia crashed. Believe it or not I was actually able to fix it. I went to run-level three and pressed the up arrow until I found the command that installed the driver and ran it. Then I went to the website and found the adjustment that I had to make to Sax2.When I made the necessary change everything worked. Sometimes I even impress myself. Some of us are easily impressed.

But thank you all for your patience and for trying to help me.
Sincerely,
wmnewton