crazy color screen after boot

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at fabbione.net
Sat Sep 18 15:54:20 UTC 2004


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:

> Thanks for the replies -- I do have an nvidia card (mx 440). I will
> try installing the nvidia drivers and post back.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:37:34 -0700 (PDT), Csaba Simon <secsaba at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I do with a Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ultra, I've had the
> > > problem before and I think its xfree86 4.3.  In the
> > > past in other distro's 4.4 and xorg work fine.  The
> > > only way i've ever got it to work with 4.3 is to go
> > > straight to 3d "nvidia" drivers.
> >
> > Same problem here with an Nvidia GeForce 440MX card. After installing the
> > "nvidia" driver everything went fine.


Can you kindly try to install this driver:
http://people.no-name-yet.com/~fabbione/nv/i386/

grabbing the 2 .o files and copying them to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
and restart X??

Thanks
Fabio

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