[clug-talk] Video Card Switched

[Gustin Johnson]

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If you download the binary module from nvidia.com the install procedure
will modify your xorg.conf for you.  Simply run as root or with sudo:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2.run

Of course the number will vary slightly if you have a newer version of
the driver.

You can reboot once the driver is installed *OR* or you can restart the
gui login manager.

For gnome type (as root or with sudo)
/etc/init.d/gdm restart

for KDE it is:
/etc/init.d/kdm restart

To download the driver I use another workstation to browse the nvidia
site, then I ssh to the box in question and use wget to download the driver.

Cheers,

bogi wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Yep, i got one of those too :-)
> Mandriva did not recognize it, so did not FC4, but both where close enough, 
> and recognized it as Nvidia Generic, That worked, but no acceleration. Now 
> you need to dl the driver from the nvidia website, 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
> Check your cpu type, they have 32 and 64 bit drivers. 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8178.html
> This is the 32 bit driver.Read the page, dl the driver, run it as root, Make 
> sure you have kernel headers and kernel source installed properly in your 
> system, the driver will likely compile the module for your system on the spot 
> and install it. Follow the instructions in the README file to edit Xorg.conf 
> or Xf86config.conf depending on your system setup. (likely Xorg)
> when done, reboot and you are done. Oh, you must do the install process with 
> no X running (init 3 will do the trick) do the install and edit the xorg.conf 
> than init 5) and there you go, warp 10.
> Cheers
> Szemir
> 
> On January 8, 2006 12:11, Mike Bougie wrote:
> 
>>Hey folks! I recently upgraded from an old Radeon 7000 to a fancy new
>>nVidia FX 5200 and when I boot into Ubuntu 5.10 (2.6.12) X doesn't
>>recognize the change.
>>
>>How can I fix this? I can boot into command line fine, so I'm guessing that
>>I have to configure X to use the new VC, but am lost as to how.
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>
>>~Mike
> 
> 
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