Hey i'm a newbie,

can some1 give me detailed instructions on how 2 install nvidia driver.

how do i enter linux without xorg thing?

any help will be appricated.

First change your runlevel. Go to /etc/inittab and change this...

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

Change the 5 to 3 then reboot. Then log in as root and...



Do what it tells you to do. Then change your runlevel back to 5. After that go to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edit...

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
Driver "nvidia" <-----change the "nv" to "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "on" <----add this if you don't the nvidia logo
#VideoRam 131072
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


Reboot and your done.

an msg comes up saying


No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel;

any other ideas?

an msg comes up saying


No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel;
then it asks me if i wanna download a kernel intrerface, i select no.


now a warning comes up saying

your kernel was configured to include rivafb as loadable kernel module.
then saying nvidia module will not function properly with rivafb module loaded.

click on ok


i get an error saying

class: internal Software error
msg: VPd: cannot read VPD keys
nr: 0x19e
n continued on, i putted into linux fine, did the rest of the config, reboot fine just that
first my screen saver couldn't display OpenGL screen savers, n when i did a shut down, it putted in command line, even when i changed the 3 into a 5


any other ideas?

oh n in xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
"Vesa driver (generic)"
End Section

thats all

dunno if this may help

Never mind i got it sorted

in screen section i had to also change the device, thanx 4 ur help

n ur time