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Originally Posted by morphius

That could have been a fun call, MS just has to love it when people call to say that Firefox crashed their system.

I might load it this weekend just to experiment with it. too bad I already activated Vista. According to their website, I should be able to activate as many times as I want though.

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Originally Posted by Guru

I might load it this weekend just to experiment with it. too bad I already activated Vista. According to their website, I should be able to activate as many times as I want though.

Firefox works great for me.

PCLinuxOS

How do you shut down X to install a new Nvidia driver? None of the online help guides are very clear on this.

ctrl Alt Backspace if you have not gotten it

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Originally Posted by SLAG (Post 4775957)

ctrl Alt Backspace if you have not gotten it

Yeah, I tried that earlier and it just took me back to the standard login screen. I couldn't install the driver from there.

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Originally Posted by Guru (Post 4776041)

Yeah, I tried that earlier and it just took me back to the standard login screen. I couldn't install the driver from there.

In a very general sense:

You install the files and the CtlAltBksp just restarts the X server with whatever your new config is.

Try:

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Installing And configuring nVidia on PCLINUXos 2007 ...

1- Go to Synaptic Package Manager in System - Administration Menu.
2- Press on Search Icon on Synaptic Menu.
3- Fill in the Word nvidia and press ok. ( Look in Description and Name )
4- Choose (NVIDIA kernel module for GeForceFX and newer NVIDIA GPUs)
5- accept the requirements.
6- press on Apply.
7- Logoff and relogin

Thats all

Enjoy ..

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Originally Posted by pikesome (Post 4776049)

In a very general sense:

You install the files and the CtlAltBksp just restarts the X server with whatever your new config is.

Try:

Can't use package manager as the only Nvidia drivers it has are out of date for my card. I need to install the one directly from the Nvidia website. Manual install.

I am limited to 1024x768 on the current driver and that just won't cut it for me.

Also, it won't let me install the driver until X has stopped so Ctrl Alt Backspace isn't working the way you are stating.

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Originally Posted by Guru (Post 4776058)

What card do you have? Is it brand new?

I've heard (I'd have to look it up) that the 8800 series cards don't play well with the Nvidia made drivers.

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Originally Posted by Guru (Post 4776058)

Also, it won't let me install the driver until X has stopped so Ctrl Alt Backspace isn't working the way you are stating.

Try:

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BOOTING in RUNLEVEL 3 ( Trick with Lilo )

Sometimes when troubleshooting you will want to boot in run-level 3 ( This is the non-graphical mode ) because X is using the wrong driver or the system fails to boot the usual way, hanging on some module it fails to load.

Here is a simple trick for the people using Lilo as their boot-loader:
Imagine your Lilo menu usually shows you:

PCLos
Mandrake
Fedora
Debian
Slackware

And it is PCLos you want to boot in run-level 3 . . . .

When you get the lilo-screen where you can choose what distro to boot press the Esc-key and you will get a prompt . . . at that prompt type:

CODE
PCLos 3

( Basically it is the name of the menu entry you want to boot and a 3 ) . . . . It will then boot in level 3 . . . then you can login as "root" ( not "su" ) and do "XFdrake" to set the correct driver for your graphics card, or any other troubleshooting operation you need to perform.
When you are ready you can either type "reboot" or log out as root with Ctrl+D, then log in as user and type "startx", . . . and it will magically continue booting from level 3 to level 5.

NOTE: Sure you can type "PCLos 1" too so it boots in "single user mode" giving you a root-prompt, so in case you forgot the root-password you can just type "passwd" and change it to one you can remember next time you need it.

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Originally Posted by pikesome (Post 4776065)

What card do you have? Is it brand new?

I've heard (I'd have to look it up) that the 8800 series cards don't play well with the Nvidia made drivers.

Older card. Geforce FX 5500oc

Worked fine under windows XP all the way to 1440x900.

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Originally Posted by Guru (Post 4776124)

Older card. Geforce FX 5500oc

Worked fine under windows XP all the way to 1440x900.

Nvidia's Linux driver could be better, no argument here. At least they aren't ATI's. Steaming pile of turd.