XDM and NVdriver issues...

[Jinx]

Gday,

I got a couple of small glitches that I want to get sorted out with my Xwindows...

1. When booting up, the NVdriver does not load... this causes the initation of XDM (or X for that matter) to die. I run an lsmod, and there is no NVdriver there... so I go back to the NVIDIA_kernel source code, rerun make and install it again... lsmod again... there it is. XDM will now start.

I am not entirely familiar with how the NVdriver is loaded, which it is invoked during boot up or whether it is loaded when X is loading, but either way it ain't autoloading.

2. I need to set my resolution default to 800x600 (default 16bpp), anyone know how to do this?

Hope ya can help.

Cya round
Jinx

[Malakin]

edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.

Near the bottom make sure it says:
DefaultColorDepth 16

Then after that where is says "Depth 16" makes modes look like this:
Modes "800x600" "640x480"

You may be able to do this through the gui but you didn't say distro or desktop you're using.

The readme pdf on Nvidia's site at the bottom of the page where you download the Linux drivers is a very thorough source of help.

[Jinx]

Running Icewm on X 4.0.1 on Debian (kernel 2.4.6).

Got the defualt set to 16bit, but when I go into Icewm, it is defualting to 640X480. I have found that this resolution causes me to have to scroll to find my desktop (desktop is larger than the screen). I use Xvidtune to change to 800X600 and it works fine... just want to know if I can set this to default?

Thanks for the help mate. :)

Cya round
Jinx

[cabu1966]

I just finished installing the nvidia drivers on my finally working LFS system. I added the following to my /etc/init.d/rc.local:
echo "Installing Nvidia kernel module..."
insmod NVdriver
This will get the NVidia module loaded at startup.
Depending on your distro the file to modify may be different.

[ 07 September 2001: Message edited by: cabu1966 ]

[Jinx]

Thanks,

Will give this a go.

Cya round
Jinx