I need some help here, i really dont know what information might be usefull to solve the problem but here i go:
I am using a debian sarge linux with a custom complied kernel 2.6.9 on a Pentium III 800mhz proccesor with a Riva Tnt 2 of 32mb, an LG studioworkls 17' 710E monitor on my box and i was trying to get installed nvidia graghic card driver.
I followed these steps
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...debian+win4lin
after i tried many times and did no succeed (kernel panic, or not able to compile) i decided to do those steps again but not with the same kernel, and without patches, and specified i had a pentium III on the xconfig.
After that it complied fine (thanks m_yates!).
I then successfuly installed the nvidia driver followed the README steps but, it doesn't worked as i expected, it seems like images are not refreshed or something. for example in kdm part of the nvidiasplashscreen gets ontop of the login window and i can see username label and password lable (with an nvida background which is really the splash screen) but i can not see the text boxes or the buttons.
what did i try?
i tried using some agp options described on the nvidia appendics
i tried turning pnp bios on of
nothing else really i have no idea what else to try and didn't find any post with a similar problem.
so if somebody had the same problem or knows what did i do wrong please help.
here is a part of the xfree log that might be interesting:
"
II) LoadModule: "pex5"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module pex5
(II) UnloadModule: "pex5"
(EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a
(II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "speedo"
"
and another error:
"II) LoadModule: "xie"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module xie
(II) UnloadModule: "xie"
(EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.6629
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:14:07 PST 2004
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs"
if someone has any idea please post reply
ps: i am sorry if my inglish is not so good
