Hi

I'm running mepis 6.0 on a 6100m2ma nvidia MOB with AMD X2 cpu. The MOB has in built graphics but I did not know which linux driver was applicable other than basic nv. After must messing around I decided to buy a new decent PCI-E graphics card.

The problem is when installed the PC boots and the OS installs but when it tries to install KDE I get the error "No signal detected." and the monitor is completly blank. I cannot understand why it does not default to basic VGA or even to a non graphic terminal.

Incidentally when booting it identifies the graphics card. As far as I can see the OS is loaded but without a working monitor I cannot even begin to try to solve the problem.

Grabro

revert back to your old nv settings from the live cd.

then install the latest kernel headers and linux kernel. Now you should be able to install the nvidia drivers and have them work.

What's a "MOB"?
What is the origin of this abbreviation?
Do you mean "mobo", i.e. mother board?

Grabro,

Their are three different Foxconn motherboards at this link which one do you have...
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/produc...D=en-us0000163

6.0 is an old version of simplymepis, and what PC-Express Video card did you purchase a Nvidia, or ATI...

Since you may have a AMD x2 CPU in your motherboard have you tried 6.5.02 32-bit or the 64-bit version. I am running a ECS GeForce6100SM-M with on-board graphic, using both the 6.5.02 64-bit version with a AMD X2 4400 cpu (missing sound was solved with a $6 E-cycled Gateway SoundBlaster).

I have a second ECS GeForce6100SM-M system X2 3600 cpu I am using for testing 64-bit version of SimplyMepis 6.9.90 beta6 and the on-board video & sound works well using the beta...

Both of these install are rock solid, including the beta using the ECS version of your motherboard...

In the 6.5.02 64-bit version I loaded the Nvidia as it gives you that choice on booting the live CD... and it has run ever since May without any problems...

If you purchased a newer Video card, maybe the support for them is not available without additional work around...
www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Hardware#NVIDIA

JR

Namida12

I'm pretty sure my mobo is the 6100m2ma-rs2h.

Mepis 6.0 allows me to select either nv; nvidia-glx-legacy or nvidia-glx. According to the website the 6100nforce 400 is supported by the nvidia-glx-legacy driver. However if I try to select this upon rebooting it defaults to the command line. Any attempt to restart X give the following error.

This is an extract from the xorg log when trying to restart X.

II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: __glXLastContext
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) UnloadModule: "GLcore"

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7174
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX

II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7174
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver

(II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:48:37 PST 2005
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:05:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I tried all sorts of ideas but to no avail and eventually gave up and bought a Nvidia
7600GS PCI-E Grahpics card. However when this is installed the problem is worse as I have no screen whatsoever. Upon booting the card is recognised and the OS loads with the screen working fine. Once it tries to install KDE the screen is blank. The monitor is telling me there is no signal.

My next little ploy is to reinstall the new card and then boot from the live CD and see what happens.

Grabro

why didn't you take my advice.

Its as simple as updating the kernal and headers.

Brainfast

Can you explain why that should work?

I have Mepis 6.5 also with an updated kernel and I get the same result. Also an updated kernel is not in the repositories. Can I get them as a deb install or must I do confirgure, make, make install etc?

grabro

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Grabro

Even this thread on mepislovers for 6.5.02 mentions headers as Brianfast indicated...
http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=10308

JR

Namida12/Brianfast

Thanks for your help with this problem and the various URL's to find out more info. It appears my problem is not new anmd I have tried to follow your and xToeCutters advice.

I started to do this:-
sudo apt-get install fakeroot linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gcc gcc-3.4 xserver-xorg-dev pkg-config
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-*

You need to log out and press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access a command line, then you can enter the rest of your command lines

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
sudo sh (NAMEOFDRIVER.run)
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

Unfortunately I could only do the first part as the message I received stated:-
fakeroot is already the current version
Couldn't find linux-headers-uname-r

Is there a particular repository I should have loaded in order to get this?

grabro

Grabro,

You might go back to toecutter and ask, he know a bit about GeForce cards...
I believe he has solved this previously...

JR

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