Cannot boot up on Linux, have to boot onto Linux-nonfb after installing nvidia driver

/home/kyle · 03-12-2004, 11:41 PM

I installed my nvidia drivers without any errors, I edited the files no prob, saved em and all that, but when Mandrake boots up, it asks if u wanna boot failsafe, Linux, Linux-nonfb and floppy, when I choose the normal Linux, when it makes an attempt to go to KDE and start up, the screen goes black, and aa bunch of blue lines appear at the bottom of my screen..

Anyone know what the problem might be?

DavidPhillips · 03-13-2004, 03:51 PM

The frame buffer has different screen sizes and color depths, check your bootloader config file to see which one it has. Maybe try another setting.

/home/kyle · 03-13-2004, 04:07 PM

I dont know how to check my boot loader config file, or change any settings. I am a newbie to Linux.

Can you explain what you mean by 'the frame has a different screen sizes and color depths"?

I would like to learn what all this stuff means.

Thank you
~Kyle

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/home/kyle · 03-13-2004, 07:30 PM

ANYONE?!?!??????

/home/kyle · 03-13-2004, 08:02 PM

Screw it, im going back to windows in like 5 hours, im tired of this shit, all these errors, cant play games or get my sound workin, a waste of time.

DavidPhillips · 03-14-2004, 10:04 PM

I mean setting it with the option...

vga=???

what bootloader do you have?

Here are some example settings...

vga=???

text

80x25 text

vga16

80x25 text, 640 x 480 GUI

785

80x30 text, 640 x 480 GUI (frame buffer)

788

100x37 text, 800 x 600 GUI (frame buffer)

791

130x48 text, 1024 x 768 GUI (frame buffer)

794

158x64 text, 1280 x 1024 GUI (frame buffer)

Others you can play with:

0x0f01

80x50 text

0x0f02

80x43 text

0x0f03

80x28 text

0x0f05

80x30 text

0x0f06

80x34 text

0x0f07

80x60 text

0x0122

100x30 text

Ask

prompt for desired video characteristics to use. You can use this to determine the selections actually available for your video card.

joker20 · 09-15-2004, 11:23 AM

i too am having this problem, its the video card and ill swear it up and down, i put in my voodoo4 4500 last night just to see if it is the card, and slackware10 and mandrake9 (just like last time) ran kde with no problem

i installed the nvidia drivers and edited xf86config just liek it said....when i ran startx the end of the log file tells me there is somehting wrong with the modules...i believe its /usr/src/lib/modules or somethign to that nature

its quit irritating