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[Jiggy]

we spoke saturday night about configuring Nvidia driver, id got them installed and you said i needed to check for something witch id done, but i didnt do the last part witch was to remove two lines, what two lines do i need to remove? thanks.

[Rick]

You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"



Found Here..
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/README

In this section
(sec-03) EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE


Hope this helps..

[Jiggy]

Rick, a few things...

1. would it be better to do this without Xserv starting up, if so what do i type in at the "user name" to enable it?

2. the two lines i need to remove, what do i type in to get the right window up to remove these lines?

[Rick]

Open the file with one of the editors ( text editor Not word processor )
You’ll need to be logged on as Root to gain write permission to the files

Once you make the changes and save the file.
Restart the system.
It should then read the new configuration when it starts and use the changes

[Jiggy]

were do i find that file to make changes to, ive done a search from root for it and i cant find xfree86 (tried many ways) never mind editing it. have i mess up along the line, or just lost the plot???

[Rick]

Check out the link above.
it lists a number of file names for the config file used by other distro's


I'm not sure what Mandrake uses ..
I'm not even sure If I ran the config program for xserv on the last install I have setup

[Jiggy]

thanks Rick ill take a closer look:rolleyes:

[Rick]

here is where I found it..
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Here is what I found at my end.
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

ElcheapO video card..

[Jiggy]

Rick at my end..in config4

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"

[Rick]

If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
the relevant Device section and replace the line:

Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")

with

Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load "glx"