Nvidia 6800 GT 256 + AMD X64

Pangea Gritstone pangea3 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 13:26:57 UTC 2004


It will not work at all, I have no X at all. When I modprobe for
Nvidia it is not there. I would like to have 2d at least, that's a
starting point.


On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:58:44 +1000, felix <dark_paw at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:33 -0400, Pangea Gritstone wrote:
> > I would like a small bit of assistance. I have tried the ubuntu
> > release of X64 and one of the daily releases for 6 Oct. I am not able
> > to get my video card to work, it will see my SATA drives and Nic's etc
> > no problems there. I have tried to get the kernel headers and install
> > the nvidia drivers myself but it keeps telling me that they are
> > installed, I know they are not. Does ayone have an Idea about this,
> > should I get todays daily release and try that. I really want this to
> > work so I can break the windows hold it has on me and my machines lol.
> 
> How does it not work exactly? No display at all, or just accelerated 3d
> fails?
> 
> I found that the nvidia installer gets 2D going just fine on my card,
> but it has some issues with the accelerated 3d (GLX) stuff. Let us know
> if that's the issue, there's a work-around.
> 
> 
> Felix
> 
> 


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Pangea




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