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Originally posted by Marc A Maybe you can compare your settings in mandrake and in debian to see the différences.
Nvidia is known to give problems and they have non-free drivers but nv should do the job.
I've read : "Option "UseFBDev" "true" in the device part.
Does it mean you're using frame buffer option? Try to comment that one (put # before the line)
Good luck. Marc A
Commenting Option "UseFBDev" "true" didn't work.But i'il post my mandrake XF86Config-4 latrer.
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but it still went nuts. The "Load "glx" " is also in place. I have posted something in the nVidia forums and am awaiting a response. If you find out anything, please post it for the rest of us, I'll do the same for you .
I know, but if I do that my computer will not load in the X Server. It gets to the end of the boot sequence and then crashes into the console. Thats what hylke and I are trying to solve...how to get it to Driver "nvidia" and still have it work ^_^
@Gamezace & hylke
Are you a team? Or have you both the exactly same problem? :S
@hylke
Well, the Debian XF86Config file is wrong. First you have to change Driver "nv" to nvidia, and then you have to remove Load "GLcore" and Load "dri". Or have you posted your old XF86Config file?
Have you tried your working Mandrake config file in Debian?
Anyway, the XFree log tells you that you are using the nv driver, rather than the nvidia driver. As I said, install the nvidia driver, and change your config file. If you have done that allready, and you say it crashes to console, you will mostly find a pretty good error message on your screen. Tell us that message, please.
Heh, nope - we are two completely different people with the same problem.
I haven't seen the directions you gave anywhere else, including in nVidia's readme. I'm going to print them out and try them out the next chance I get. The "Load 'GLcore' " and "Load 'dri' " deletions, specifically, are new. Thanks for the help thus far...I'll be posting soon enough in response.
I, burned my nvidia driver on a cd to install my nvidia driver, i thought i didn't need to install those headers because i didn't had to do that with my mandrake.But you where right.
But the problem is, i don't have an internet connection on my debian(neither on my mandrake).
So how can i update my kernel on my mandrake(i hope it isn't bigger then 1.44 mb because then i need to write another cd).
you dont need the source tar ball (unless i am mistaken)
What you need is the headers package. The headers package if for precompiled kernels (like the ones used in fresh installs).
From WinXP (if that is your case) go to debian.org in the package section search for the corresponding headers package. Burn it.
Then on debian you mount your CD. move to it. and type:
~cdrom# dpkg -i kernel-headers.x.x.x
~$ cd /usr/src
you will see the tar ball for the headers there
Here is what I did. I learned that the "no screens found" error simply means that a good combination of hardware settings could not be found. So I checked out the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files. I knew I wanted my moniter and desktop to run at 1600x1200, so I edited it (see code below). I then went into XF86Config and chose a moniter setting that I wanted to use. I copied all the information about it, and put it into XF86Config-4 as the only moniter setting available (note that the setting here must match with the setting listed in the "screen" section). See the code below to make sense of all this:
XF86Config
-----------------------
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection
# This is a set of standard mode timings. Modes that are out of monitor spec
# are automatically deleted by the server (provided the HorizSync and
# VertRefresh lines are correct), so there's no immediate need to
# delete mode timings (unless particular mode timings don't work on your
# monitor). With these modes, the best standard mode that your monitor
# and video card can support for a given resolution is automatically
# used.
XF86Config-4
----------------------
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
I know it sounds stupid, but which from all those kernel things from http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/ do i need to download?
If this doesn't work i'il try Gamesace way because i don't fully understand it :-D
ok, i found a header, but it gave some errors.Is it because i installed the wrong headers?
Here's a list of packages: http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/
Somewhere out there, there are some headers.But wich one do i need?
thanx Hylke
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