hi everybody,

i'm using slackware 13.37.

my graphic card is nvidia geforce go 6400. I downloaded nvidia-kernel and nvidia-driver (260.19.29) from slackbuilds.org.

after the installation I used the command nvidia-switch --nvidia to switch to the nvidia xorg files.

after a restart, I couldn't open my desktop, so the only chance was to delete xorg.conf file on /etc/X11. So I could see my desktop.

Now, I don't have any xorg.conf file, I'm not using any graphic drivers and my fans are very loud, videos are laggy.

What do I do know? First of all, how do I create a xorg.conf file and use the nvidia drivers?

Thanks for your help

It's so much easier to grab the binary drivers from Nvidia website. The installation process is very straightforward and it creates xorg.conf for you.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
1. Choose your architecture
2. Download the file
3. chmod +x nvidia_driver_file_which_you downloaded
4. exit X
5. su
6. ./nvidia_driver_file_which_you_downloaded

HTH

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thanks, it worked great.

During the installation I had to modprobe the nouveau driver. Should I enable it again?

The nouveau driver conflicts with the binary Nvidia driver. It needs to be black listed. Have no fear though, if the Nvidia installer detected nouveau, the installer will offer to black list it, and prompt you to reboot. Unless nouveau is blacklisted it (nouveau) will auto probe and load -- even in console mode without an X session running.

You can check if this is the case on your system by taking a look in /etc/modprobe.d

The Nvidia binary installer also has a built in update feature.

The Nvidia blob is fine, but it its a pain to revert to a pristine F/OSS system. Yes it is.

The SBo files allow switching back and forth much more easily, and follow the standard slackware package installation philosophy. To use the SBo style, you will need to manually blacklist nouveau driver.

The new X.org prefers to autodetect everything. You need to be careful with the xorg.conf entries. Better to use the nvidia-settings utility or put your override/tweaks into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d as "xxxx.conf" named files.

Oh man, I wish I had known there was an SBo way to install the nVidia blob... is it documented somewhere how to clean a system of it so one may go the SBo route?

That's not true. Nvidia's uninstaller takes care of this without issue. The installer keeps a list of files it replaces, then upon uninstallation reverts your system back to the previous state.
The SBo package is nice if you want to effortlessly switch between the upstream Nvidia driver, and one of the other 3 FOSS drivers.

I'm wondering - how to completly uninstall it? In PKGTOOL when i had an Ati card i had fglrx package, and i could remove it, and than reinstall MESA package but with nvidia driver (from their web site - i don't use slackbuilds) i dont have something similar in PKGTOOL, and i don't know how to revert back (in case something went wrong - i'm just curious).

Can You tell me?

To uninstall the binary driver, you can pass the --unistall flag to the installer file:

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Or you can run the new version installer and it will automatically uninstall the old version.

Relevant and possibly timely...
No kidding ...for anyone attempting to use the Nvidia driver on similar era systems apart from other obstacles I find Xorg either rewrites or simply deletes a WORKING /etc/X11/xorg.conf each reboot so if a command prompt appears check for that .

mike