Graphics card problem! HELP?

[Michael Emberlin]

Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
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>> Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
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>>> Just a quick question. Did you install the nvidia driver from the 
>>> repositories or the driver from Nvidia.com???
>>>     
>>>       
>> I tried the nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-new from the repos, and tried 
>> Automatix2 (couldn't detect the card to identify), and I tried an 
>> application caled Envy (which apparently is what NVIDIA translates to?), 
>> but Envy couldn't ID the card, and then I tried Envy in manual mode and 
>> that didn't work either.
>>
>> Results varied from the white screen (which stuck if I didn't hit escape 
>> quickly enough) to X failing to start to complete black screen lockup. 
>> Each time I had to either boot to safe mode from GRUB or log in as an 
>> admin user and re-copy a backup of xorg.conf to the /etc/X11 directory 
>> and restart, after which it would work again sans extra feature.
>>
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>>> I have found that the driver from the repositories works quite 
>>> painlessly, though I don't know for a card that new. I'm running a 7900 
>>> GT Extreme and it works like a champ for me :)
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>>>       
>> How new is the 8600?  That is most likely part of my problem.  Any idea 
>> if there is work being done to support it in the open-source world?
>>
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> Your best bet may be to go to nvidia.com and download the driver from 
> there. I know that method is frowned upon in the debian world, but with 
> a card that new it may be your best bet.
>
> Anyone else on the list running that vid card???
>
>   
You're best bet to see if your card is supported, is to browse through 
the list of video cards in the README file at

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/index.html

Hope that helps.

M.