How to get Nividia GeForce 6200 to work?

Sat Oct 7 20:11:02 UTC 2006

Do you have the laptop 6200 or one of the on-board 6200's? If so, they
require newer drivers than come packaged with dapper. You can download and
install them from the NVidia web site.

On 10/7/06, Professor Wagstaff <professorwagstaff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 12:17 +0200, Henk Koster wrote:
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> 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 recoverysession, 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.
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> Thanks for the reply! Sadly this did not work. I am using Dapper BTW.
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