video drivers

[ga1ahad83]

ok, i have spent the last hour looking at other peoples hardware problem and trying new things. however i cant seem to find anyone that has teh same problem as i. basically. i have installed the new nvidia drivers. i need to change the driver from nv to nvidia. i cant figure out how to do this. i loged in as root and played with every option on my xf86config. it doent give me the option to change the driver over. if any of you could assist me i would be very thankful. thank you.

[je_fro]

Mine looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "gforce4"
# Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 65536

ALSO:
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"

[Mow]

Yeah what they said.

[Thrasher]

Yeah, like Je_Fro said

Just change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" and save.

You know it worked if you see the Nvidia splash screen when staring up a GUI.
If you dont see the splash screen, the driver aint installed.

/etc/X11/XF86Config

[ga1ahad83]

how would i go about making the change from nv to nvidia. i cant do it in a text editor. says it cant make a back up. should i go into comanad line and do something with xf86config? im a newbie retard. please spell everything out for me. . . .thank you, i do appreciate the help.

[je_fro]

Maybe you didn't take the time to do one?
What distro?
If you use Gnome, as root in the terminal, do:
gedit /etc/X11/XF86Config
if you use KDE replace gedit with kedit. or use nano in the command line.
It's real easy,
Good Luck!!!
Post Back if you have trouble.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by ga1ahad83
how would i go about making the change from nv to nvidia. i cant do it in a text editor. says it cant make a back up. You are doing this as root, right?

[ga1ahad83]

thank you all for your help. i have it working now. thank you very much.