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.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Professor Wagstaff</b> <<a href="mailto:professorwagstaff@gmail.com">professorwagstaff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 12:17 +0200, Henk Koster wrote:
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<font color="#000000">On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:47:43 +1300, Jeff Fuller wrote:</font>
<font color="#000000">> I have downloaded the Nividia-glx driver and activated, also enabled the</font>
<font color="#000000">> restricted package for my K7 kernel but all i get is a greyish screen</font>
<font color="#000000">> when i Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Any clues?</font>
<font color="#000000">> "Life is short, go slowly".</font>
<font color="#000000">> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"></font>
<font color="#000000">> <HTML></font>
<font color="#000000">> <HEAD></font>
<font color="#000000">> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"></font>
<font color="#000000">> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"></font>
<font color="#000000">> </HEAD></font>
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<font color="#000000">> 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></font>
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<font color="#000000">> "Life is short, go slowly".</font>
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<font color="#000000">You must tell X to use the nvidia driver, so reboot into a recovery</font>
<font color="#000000">session, then at the # prompt type </font>
<font color="#000000"># dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg</font>
<font color="#000000">You can probably accept all suggested settings, except when it comes </font>
<font color="#000000">to the video driver, which should be changed from nv to nvidia.</font>
<font color="#000000">Then reboot, and things should be OK.</font></span></div>
Thanks for the reply! Sadly this did not work. I am using Dapper BTW.
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