X11 and Nvidia woes

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Voltage Spike on 11/14/2002 18:06 as having spake thusly:
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\_ On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 05:37 PM, Aaron Cordova wrote:
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\_ > I have tried several times to install the Nvidia linux drivers and I 
\_ > loose my X server each time. I setup my XFree86Config-4 just as Nvidia 
\_ > suggests. I have tried many other methods from other mailing lists but 
\_ > I allways loose the X server. I am Using Mandrake 9.0 Dolphin, I have 
\_ > a Geforce 4 Ti4200. The default driver is fbdev. Can anyone help or 
\_ > point me to yet another article???
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\_ You should have a file called "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".  Attach that 
\_ file to a message and send it to us.  In that way, we should get an 
\_ extremely good indication of what is happening.

Also, if the module is properly installed, you should get smoething like

% lsmod | egrep NV
NVdriver             1149024  20 (autoclean)

when you ask.  If you don't, that's a sure sign that something didn't
happen right.  Let us know that too.  :-)

You have both the NVIDIA_GLX and the NVIDIA_kernel packages, right?

David