Hi everyone,

I installed Mandrake10 and it (aparently as usual) did not configure my Nvidia Gforce4 card and monitor properly because as it booted the monitor turned to standby/off. I have an unknown monitor ( "Champ" on the front is all i can discern from the thing) but it can res at 1024x748x32 fine with windows XP.

To hopefully correct the problem i installed the "Nvidia-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run" driver and after the completion of this the gui told me to configure the appropriate file, (which one???!),Is it
XF86Config-4 or should I start in the empty XF86Config file???.... The Config-4 file has the display settings and some other monitor types which I am sure are not correct so is this the prob?? I tryed to comment them out but how do I save the file?

........ /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_glx-1.0/README for details (didnt tell me shit).

how exactly do I do this?? I can view and right to the file but what do I actually write? and how do i save it?

Also, I specified during CD installation that i did not want to auto load the KDE GUI, how do i start this GUI from the me@localhost me:??? Is is "sh startX" ?? ...... it seems like it as the monitor went blank again.

I am a bit more than a newbie, but still a newbie though!

Cheers guys + gals

Welcome to LQ!

Nvidia has a complete file where you download the driver named
README - Text File. Just loaded with instructions.

You edit the XF86Config-4 file. You will have to be root, so when
you get a prompt make sure it's # and not $.