neocytrix Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Hello everyone, I just installed slackware and the installation seemed to be going fine but when I booted into it, it booted into text mode, so I typed kdm and it went to just a pure black screen and the power light on my monitor started blinking. I had a problem with this in mandrake a while back and it had to do with the video card. Im using slackware 10.0 with an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 video card. I need -Neocytrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 have you configured X? have you installed the nvidia driver? One of these might work iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocytrix Posted July 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Hello, I went to Nvidia.com but im not sure what drivers to get for my video card, Linux IA32 or Linux IA64, or what I don't know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Linux IA32 it's for Intel Architecture, 32-bit (this is fine for athlons also, btw). IA64 is for 64-bit (if my understanding is correct). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 8, 2004 Report Share Posted July 8, 2004 /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgconfig Do you know your values for Monitor? What type of monitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Also try startx. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocytrix Posted July 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 I still can't get it to work, I went to install the Nvidia driver from here and the script ran fine but it said something about making sure my kernal source was there or something like that, and it is there. So then I went to install my 3com drivers from here and that had a bunch of errors also. Can someone tell me maybe how to configure X or what I should be looking for in my logs? IM LOST lol. -neocytrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 What are the specs of your monitor? Brand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocytrix Posted July 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 I don't know about the specs, I couldn't find them, but its a "MAG innovision" monitor if that helps :unsure: -neocytrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 I have the same card (chipset) as you running slack 10 with nvidia drivers. If you don't have the nvidia drivers set up you should still be able to run X using the default configuration I don't know which Mag Innovision you have, but the lowest model has frequency 30-70kHz horizontal and 50-130Hz vertical. Edit your /etc/Xorg.conf file and put those values in the monitor section. You could probably put in higher values, but leave that until you know which model monitor you have. If you have nvidia drivers working, change the Xorg.conf file accordingly (module "nvidia", enable GLX, etc). I'm not in Linux right now, so I can't be more specific. If you don't have nvidia working, use the "nv" or "vesa" module with GLX disabled. See if that makes a difference. If not, post again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocytrix Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 I tried a new set of drivers and when I went to install them it said that there was a problem (rivafb confilicted with the driver) How do I fix that? -Neocytrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Do "lsmod" in terminal to see what modules are being loaded and post the results. In general, you need to install your kernel source, as root installpkg kernel-source-2.4.26-noarch-4.tgz if you're using the default kernel. Download the nvidia drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run) from this page and install with sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run as root. Edit /etc/X11/xorg/conf to look like this: In the "Modules" section, uncomment the Load "GLX" line In the "Graphics Device Section", change "driver to "nvidia" I think you said you had done all this, but you mentioned "rivafb", which sounds like an old nvidia card, maybe the wrong file was downloaded Hope you make some headway with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hope this isn't too obvious, but you did type "startx" after login? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&f...article&sid=317 If your still stuck, you might check that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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