How to get Nividia GeForce 6200 to work?

Sat Oct 7 20:01:44 UTC 2006

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 12:17 +0200, Henk Koster wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:47:43 +1300, Jeff Fuller wrote:
> 
> > I have downloaded the Nividia-glx driver and activated, also enabled the
> > restricted package for my K7 kernel but all i get is a greyish screen
> > when i Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Any clues?
> > "Life is short, go slowly".
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> >   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
> >   <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3">
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> > I have downloaded the Nividia-glx driver and activated, also enabled the restricted package for my K7 kernel but all i get is a greyish screen when i Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Any clues?<BR>
> > <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%">
> > <TR>
> > <TD>
> > "Life is short, go slowly".
> > </TD>
> > </TR>
> > </TABLE>
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> 
> You must tell X to use the nvidia driver, so reboot into a recovery
> session, then at the # prompt type 
> 
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> You can probably accept all suggested settings, except when it comes 
> to the video driver, which should be changed from nv to nvidia.
> 
> Then reboot, and things should be OK.
> 
> Thanks for the reply! Sadly this did not work. I am using Dapper BTW.
> 
> 
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