Linux X Windows Error

[Eminence]

Well I got a new video card ( Geforce 4 MX 440 )
and now Linux Mandrake 9.0 isnt recognizing it for some reason, it has an error saying it could not load the X Windows system and it then takes me to a configuration screen where I can select drivers for it. I tried using the default drivers (vesa), but they didnt work, the "Geforce 4 (generic)" drivers didnt work either...what can I try now?

[mikeL]

Have you tried Nvidia's website, I ran across these drivers http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4363

[kilgoretrout]

You need the nvidia drivers. Here's a good step-by-step walk throug on how to install the nvidia drivers for mandrake:

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4567

[Eminence]

Yeah ok ill download them....

But when I try and log in as a superuser (su) and use my root password, it just says login incorrect....why?


EDIT: Oh yeah, and with my second harddrive with windows XP on it, its the drive which i downloaded the drivers to.....but its not in /mnt when i boot up with Mandrake....why?

[kilgoretrout]

You don't login with 'su' from the command line. 'Su' is used to change to root when your already logged in as an ordinary user. When you get to the command line login, just type 'root' w/o quotes then enter your root password when prompted. To see the contents of your windows partition, you have to navigate to the mount point for it. In linux, mount points are just directories through which you access the partition. In mandrake, all mountpoints are subdirectories in /mnt, not /mnt itself. To see what subdirectories are in /mnt, use the 'ls' command like so:

# ls /mnt

I think mandrake names the mount point for the first windows partition win_c or something like that. To see the contents of /mnt/win_c use the ls command again:

# ls /mnt/win_c

If that works, navigate to the directory where you downloaded using the 'cd command:

# cd /mnt/win_c/{path to download in windows}

From here you can follow the steps in the above link from my previous post.

[Eminence]

OK thanks....ill try it tomorrow and tell you how it goes.

[Eminence]

Sorry to revive this old topic...but:

OK I got the drivers on Linux Mandrake 9.0 (from NVIDIA's site), and installed them....but now how do I select to use them? I cant see them in the list of drivers in "xf86cfg"

what now?

[kilgoretrout]

You won't see them on that list. Those are all open source drivers. You need to edit your XF86Config-4 file per the link in my prior post in order to activate the proprietary nvidia drivers.