crazy color screen after boot

Sam Folk-Williams sam.folkwilliams at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 16:13:25 UTC 2004


Fabio -- that did it! Working fine now. Thanks!
Sam


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:54:20 +0200 (CEST), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
<fabbione at fabbione.net> wrote:
> 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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