hello all.
i have been trying to install ubuntu 5.10 on my good machine for quite some time now.
i can install it just fine and get the dual-booting set just right. but when linux goes to launch the gui i get a black screen (yes, ive tried to reconfigure xorg)

i have a geforce 6600LE on a asus a8n-sli deluxe.

i think i need to boot to the cli and install a driver from there... but the problem is im still a semi-newbie when it comes to linux. so ive not much of a clue how to do that.

any help is greatly appreciated.


ps... i have an athlon 64. ive tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of ubuntu. id rather use 64, but if i have to use 32 thats alright

hello,

Got the same motherboard but an Asus EN5750 graphical card, which is PCI-express. Can you tell me if your card is PCI or AGP or PCI-express? Is it located in one of the two big slots? Is the BIOS set to look first at PCI-express (not by default)?

Kicked out Ubuntu after a few weeks : delivering few packages, few packages available and I got the impression it wasn't very stable .
Installing 64-bit versions is ok ; I used 64-bit Ubuntu and 64-bit Fedora Core 4. At this very moment I'm using the 64-bit version of SuSE 10.0, which works mostly. Do you compile source code?

Greetings

Ronald

its pci express, and its in the top pci express slot (and the sli so-dimm is set to one card)
ill check the bios in a few and let ya know how that goes


-thanks

well theres progress
the mobo was set to look pci first. so i set that to pci express. and (for the hell of it) i changed the sli autodetection to "single card" instead of "automatic"

now when i go to boot everything looks good (like usual) during the booting and then when the computer hangs for a second to launch the gui my monitor crashes and gets a "frequency over range" error.

so theres some progress, but its not finished

thanks

ps... my monitor as an arcus DE-770 BA (its a 17in crt)

You need to provide a lot more detail. First, when you boot Linux, does it take you directly into the GUI (eg, the KDE or Gnome desktop environment) or do you log in and then startx? Either way, in order to install the nvidia drivers you need to be at the command line (eg, not running X) rather than simply opening up a terminal session and executing a command line instruction.

If you are running X, press Ctl-Alt-Backspace to kill it. That will put you at the command line. Su to root, run the nvidia installer, quit root, then startx.

If you are having basic problems with your monitor/display, then it's probably just an xorg.conf configuration issue than a hardware problem. Can your monitor support the horizontal and vertical sync rates that you've specified in the xorg.conf file (which should be in the /etc/X11 directory)

i reconfigured xorg so it is set to my monitor correctly.

i go nowhere if i do a normal boot.
i can get to the CLI if i choose "recovery mode" from the boot loader...
so how would i install the nvidia driver from the CLI?

or is something not adding up?

sorry if im not giving all the info