studmuffin007 Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Ihave a nvidia geforce 7500le 512mb graphics card installed on the tower i installed mandriva 2007 on it last night but it did not install the graphic drivers like it did on my laptop so all morning i have been strugling to install the drivers i finally got them installed using this one NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run (is it the correct driver?) by going the ctrl+alt+F1 and doing the CD then SH stuff all went well i stupidly (i think) then done a urpmi.update nvidia and it did now i cannot login i get my login screen input name/ps word it starts to load then goes back to the logon screen whats wrong i have even gone the XFdrake route and still i can not login any help or advice please Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 (edited) The driver is sort-of-correct: It's functional, but the 9XXX series driver (2629) has gone final a couple of days ago, it's quite stable and offering quite a few new options (like aixgl) compared to 8776. From your VT prompt (without X running) you could perform some urpme nvidia dkms-nvidia and then reinstall the nvidia binary the same way you did before (or the 9XXX series driver). For the stock nvidia driver it's necessary to have at least kernel-sources installed (package kernel-source-stripped), although of course you can also install the full kernel-source package. If you don't then the needed modules will not be able to be built. Edited November 12, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studmuffin007 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Thanks for that i uninstalled the driver DL and installed - NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run and now when it logs on all i am left with is a white screen when i follow this post http://forums.osdir.com/forum/viewtopic.ph...1a97b482d696acd and do the vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf all i get is a black screen any reasn why or is there another way to do it? thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf or urpmi nano nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf or finally urpmi mc mc and navigating to the /etc/X11/ folder, and pressing F4 over the xorg.conf file- all should work. Notice that the above command (first one in my post) is case sensitive - the letter X in X11 is uppercase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studmuffin007 Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 thanks for that still cant get no where urpmi nano came back as as no package found so what i might do when i am not so buisy this weekend is do a new install as its a fresh install anyway so i am not going to loose out on mutch thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DoK Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 If you are using the free version configure PLF sources (with easy-urpmi on the title of this page) then urpmi dkms-nvidia (it will have nvidia as requires) and to conclude run XFdrake. P.S. if you want the new 9xxx drivers you can find it on the /backports of the PLF mirror (will require manual repository configuration) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studmuffin007 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Thanks for that bit of help DoK but unfortunatly it did not solve my problem so its back to a new install the weekend i think Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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