Inno3D GeForce 6600 trouble

firedance · 2006-02-01 17:44:36

Ok, I'm trying to help a friend install arch, problem is, we ain't getting his video drivers working. He has a nvidia card

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

I tried to install the nvidia drivers and use a working xorg.conf from my computer. Screen turns black and nothing happens. We have tried with both video outputs and still black. not even ctrl+backspace works.

One weird thing is that hwd -s does not give me nv or nvidia like on my computer here it gives

Video      : nVidia Corporation|NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] server: Xorg (vesa)

Any hints? - we have tried the wiki about nvidia install and have tried the drivers from the nvidia page (theese works for my friend when he runs windows)

Thanks //Pasi

nirvanix · 2006-02-01 19:07:19

Instead of using your old xorg.conf, try running the new config tool from nvidia called: nvidia-xconfig

I found it worked quite well at creating a functioning xorg.conf file.

elasticdog · 2006-02-01 20:01:51

Agreed...it will probably be necessary to generate a new <code>xorg.conf</code>, especially since his Modeline should be different than yours, considering he's running different hardware. Get that straightened out and I bet you should be fine...

You're right that it should be the <code>nvidia</code> driver, and there is a decent set of instructions on the wiki that will give you specific details and what to put in/take out of your <code>xorg.conf</code>.

firedance · 2006-02-01 22:29:28

We have now tried nvidia-xconfig wich gave us the same results as before.
I have figured a thing I forgot to mention (sorry!) , xorg works with the vesa driver but without hardware acceleration, it's only the nvidia driver that causes trouble.

Thanks for your time //Pasi

nirvanix · 2006-02-02 14:07:45

One other thing I can think of - when you installed the driver with pacman, was X windows running on your PC at all? If so, then the install will not fully work. I usually change runlevels to 3 by runiing the command: telinit 3
After changing the run level, I do pacman -S nvidia and it works ok.

firedance · 2006-02-02 15:36:58

No X wasn't running, we booted, logged in as root and typed pacman -S nvidia, made the xorg.conf for the nvidia driver and then logged out and logged in as his user, his user has permission to run X.

elasticdog · 2006-02-02 16:16:58

Maybe you could try loading up a live cd that has good hardware detection (Ubuntu or maybe Knoppix?) and then copy their working <code>xorg.conf</code> file to get it up and running, then tweak from there?

firedance · 2006-02-02 16:26:56

elasticdog wrote:

Maybe you could try loading up a live cd that has good hardware detection (Ubuntu or maybe Knoppix?) and then copy their working <code>xorg.conf</code> file to get it up and running, then tweak from there?

We have a working xorg.conf, it's problem with the drivers, it works with the vesa driver(probably what knoppix uses) but not with the nvidia driver. We need hardware acceleration to play games.
Thankyou for your help //Pasi

nirvanix · 2006-02-02 19:46:57

You could try a liveCD that loads the nvidia driver. I think MEPIS does, as well as some others.

Snowman · 2006-02-02 21:04:48

Did you try with the native xorg driver (nv)? Maybe they are enough performant?

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Inno3D GeForce 6600 trouble

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