You'll have to talk to NVIDIA if you want help getting their binary drivers to work, but we can help get the "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 to work. This card should work with the "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 4.3. With one of the 4.4 snapshots it should "just work", but with 4.3 you may need to add: Option "CrtcNumber" "1" to the Section "Device" of the XF86Config file. If you can't get the "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 4.3 or newer to work, send your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. It's not not expected to work with pre-4.3 "nv" drivers. Mark. On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jonathan McLean wrote: > Im not sure how much of the information here you can > help me with, nor do I know who will even read this, > but i have to try. I am new to linux, and there is no > one physically present who can show me anything about > it, and there are only 2 people who i know who i can > talk to so Ive relied on forums. But enough of the > whining sap and onto the problem. > > I am running a dual boot with XP and Mandrake 9.2. I > have a macintosh Flat Panel 15" studio display > attached to an eVGA GeForce FX5900 through DVI. When > i boot up mandrake i can access terminal boot up on > the mac display, but as soon as i enter the gui the > mac display dies on me. I thought this to be a > problem with one of two things, or maybe even both. > First off, i thought my driver could be updated to fix > the problem. When i attempted to install the nvidia > offical driver i would attempt a startx and it would > come back and say there was an nvidia driver kernel > compile error, so i swtiched it back to the old driver > and tried startx, the mac screen went dead, atleast i > was back at square one. > So then i tried the xf86config setup utility. I do > not know shit about any of this. I do not know how > important the refresh rates are (though i finally > found some specs on the mac website). I think that > the problem lies within my xf86config file, but again, > im not in contact with people who know about any of > this. Just any help, any stepping stones to start on, > anything would keep me from going bonkers. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
