NVidia 6600GT video failure

[Ed Greshko]

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-02-20, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:40:54 -0600
>> John Thompson <john at vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a secret to getting the nVidia stuff to work?
> 
>> As I mentioned earlier today, I just set up my new ATI video card using the
>> rpms from livna.  All I had to do was install the driver and log out and log
>> back in; from there everything just worked.  (I would have preferred to avoid
>> the proprietary driver, but I couldn't figure out how to get the vesa driver to
>> provide the proper resolution for my wide-screen monitor.)
>>
>> Livna also offers rpms for Nvidia, so you might have better luck if you try
>> installing it that way.
> 
> Thanks... I just tried the livna rpms; same problem, "no screen found."

Have you tried running the nvidia configuration utility "nvidia-xconfig" to 
create an xorg.conf?


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