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rickrollz

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 5

Nvidia Geforce4 mx440se, Drivers.

Hello again.

I am wondering what drivers I need to install for my video card. I read some sites that reference 96xx, so is that the correct one to use?
If I use the xorg.conf.vesa file, I am able to run wmii and awesome, but it is very limited. Awesome shows up as grayscale, and wmii doesn't allow me to use the short cuts to open a new terminal, etc. Any help would be appreciated so I can get a working xorg conf. Also, I have a Compaq 1501 monitor on that machine.

Thanks.

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Nvidia Geforce4 mx440se, Drivers.

trial & error my friend
its either nvidia or nvidia-legacy
watch what gets loaded <write it down if you have to, so you can uninstall all packages
if it dont work uninstall via
pacman -R packagename

rickrollz

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 5

Re: Nvidia Geforce4 mx440se, Drivers.

trial & error my friend
its either nvidia or nvidia-legacy
watch what gets loaded <write it down if you have to, so you can uninstall all packages
if it dont work uninstall via
pacman -R packagename

Ok, Thanks.

One question though, when I try to do pacman -S nvidia, it gives me a kernel>=26 error.

I had to download the nvidia packages to a cd, and install with pacman -U nvidia-96xx.....gz

Githzerai

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-19

Posts: 22

Re: Nvidia Geforce4 mx440se, Drivers.

It's 96xx driver u need, I have gf4mx on my old machine. Works nice...

rickrollz

Member

Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 5

Re: Nvidia Geforce4 mx440se, Drivers.

It's 96xx driver u need, I have gf4mx on my old machine. Works nice...

Thank you, I will be trying to work with those drivers.