NVIDIA GForce2 Go with Slackware

maddcow · 09-23-2003, 05:12 PM

I don't suppose any of you know how I could get better video drivers for my NVidia card in my Inspiron 8100. Currently text shows up smaller than normal (I am comparing it to when I had Redhat installed) and it has some really thick and some really thin parts to it. I assume this is because I have no formal video driver installed. Is this perhaps something else? I get the whole 1600x1400 resolution, and bigger things look ok, it's just the small text that fucks up.

Thanks

fancypiper · 09-23-2003, 06:35 PM

# Configuring X
Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO - video cards
The Linux XFree86 HOWTO
Configuring XFree86 for a Non-Specific Linux Distribution
Common X configuring tools:
You may have one or more of these tools:
XF86Setup
XFree86 -configure
Xconfigurator
xf86cfg
xf86config
xconf
If you need the nVidia driver, you want the Linux IA32 driver

maddcow · 09-23-2003, 07:02 PM

I tried to install the drivers that you noted earier. It gave me some erorr about not having compiled my kernel correctly. I am using the basic Slackware kernel for the time being. I went to one of those other sites and updated my XF86Config a little, but I doubt it will change much.

I also tried all of those tools and none of them were located on my system sadly enough. I was under root so all the /sbin /usr/sbin would show up....nada.

I appreciate your help

Very much!

JROCK1980 · 09-24-2003, 02:48 AM

maddcow did you ever get this fixed

maddcow · 09-24-2003, 03:35 AM

No, I never did.....I think it has to do with my drivers. I think I might try and install it again later though. I will paste the error message...if I can.