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lol, I was assuming it already said nv, which why I said to try vesa, lol.

 

Does the powerpack still have the nvidia driver? If so, it was probably installed during install if you said you had nvidia or it detected it. So then, nv would be the way to go next, untill you get nvidia's driver from nvidia.com.

 

Some have had issues with their display and had to disable acpi? or apic? at boot;

linux 3 acpi=off

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At the command line, type "su", and then the root password, then type "mc". You will be presented with a gui ish type of file manager that is similar to the old dosshell program. It ts easy to navigate to files. Highlight the file you want to edit and hit F4. Yu are then in thefile and you can do what you need. Hit F2 to save your changes and F10 to exit. The navigation instructions are at the bottom of the screen.

 

Go to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, hit F4, and find the section below.

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "NVidia"
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
   Driver "nvidia"
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

 

Change to Driver "nv"

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Su to root, type "mc" and navigate to /etc/inittab

 

Find a line near the top that says

:id:3:initdefault:

 

And change it to read

:id:5:initdefault:

 

Please be careful when editing this particular file. You can render your system unbootable by messing it up! (What if? cd1 rescue mode or MEPIS!)

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I will try it when I go home.

 

Every time when I boot I have to go:

ESC->

linux 3->

username:->

password:->

su->

password:->

mc:->

etc/X11/XF86Config-4

F4->

change device: "nvidia" driver to "nv"

F2->

F10->

F10->

exit->

When I exit "su"mode and Iam in nomal user mode, then can I start X and login in to GUI.

But I want X to automaticly. When I do what you have what you have told me to do, change :id:3:initdefault: to :id:5:initdefault: will it then start the normal way?

 

Thanks,

Gregory

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Your edit to XF86Config-4 should stay. In fact, what you describe is inittab already set to default 5 (gui) . You shuld only have to change the driver once. Are you saying that X re-writes itself back to the nvidia draiver?

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Instead of editing, try this: su to root and type "modprobe nvidia"

Then startx. f ti works you can manually add the nvidia driver to /etc/modules.conf or reinstall the driver using the nvidia installer.

 

Download it from http://www.nvidia.com

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