NVideo GeForce4 440

[Sam Folk-Williams]

Hi,

Final thoughts aside, since you are using Nvidia you may be
experiencing a problem a lot of people have had. Try following these
directions from Fabio, below:
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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??
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:48:48 +0200, F Da Costa Gomez
<dcgreader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'll start off by stating i'm no linux specialist (although i might be
> on trying out distributions ;-) )
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gideon de Swardt <gdeswardt at dotgeek.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:35:47 +0100
> Subject: NVideo GeForce4 440
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> excitement was quickly quenched when it failed to pick up my monitor
> settings and I am stuck in 640X480 mode within gnome on my Dell
> Inspiron 8200 Laptop with a 15" monitor and NVidia GeForce4 440 video
> card. Anybody else experiencing this after installation? Any help
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> I'm running Debian testing on a Inspiron 8100 with a Geforce2 Go card.
> So i' aware of the nvidia stuff.
> Tried Ubuntu but could not even get anything on the screen (mayby
> something to do with the usb support :-( ). However, since y'v got a
> screen it might be an idea to get the latest driver from the nvidia
> site and just run it. I had to pick up the kerner source and headers
> and after that it just worked smoothly.
> Compared to my previous two years of ... this was delicious.
> 
> I'm guessing the same would probably resolve your issue as well.
> 
> Good luck,
> Cheers,
> Fermin DCG
> 
> 
> 
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