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March 14th, 2004 02:00

help! mandrake on i8600

Hi all,

hope someone can help before I throw the machine out of the window!

I followed a load of threads on here about getting x86 going - changing the config files etc, I downloaded the nvidia driver, sh'd the nvidia run file etc, BUT,
when I come to try "startx" (in root) it says "giving up"
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I'm hoping that because I'm new to this game, it's going to be something blindingly obvious!

thanks in advance!

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    gellmann

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    Posted March 18th, 2004 22:00

    Check out your XF86Free log in /var/log. I think I had this problem a while back, and it had to do with me using someone else's XF86Config file from Red Hat. There are some font directory differences between Mandrake and Red Hat. Check out the log and see if that is the case. If not, it should help you figure out where the problem is.

    Matt
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    Blackforge

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    Posted March 22nd, 2004 19:00

    And you changed the XF86Config file's driver section from nv to nvidia right?  (or is it the opposite.... I haven't had to configure an nvidia card in linux in awhile...)

     

     

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    Agent Orange

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    Posted March 23rd, 2004 09:00

    "nv" is the free, xfree86.org nvidia driver.
    "nvidia" is the proprietary, distrributed-by-nvidia-corp driver for nvidia hardware.

    this is within the context of xfree86 and is the correct name to put into your XF86Config file.

    If you still have problems, send the log file from /var/log/XFree86.0.log

    HTH

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