NVIDIA may have proprietary drivers for Linux for the hardware. Do google :)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/6/17 Thomas Vazhappilly <[email protected]>: > > Dear all, > > I have installed Debian (Lenny) Gnu/Linux 5.0.1 (Stable release I-386) in > a > > core2duo machine. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS > (rev > > a1) > > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > The problem is I dont get the display properly. When I change the > > System > Preference > Screen Resolution it does not show any values. > > I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but got no hopeful results. > > Anyone have any idea? Any help? > > I think X server might be using vesa. Can you send /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > > You can try the nouveau driver, but it can be quite challenging. You > can also try the squeeze live cd to see if it has nouveau driver. > > squeeze seems to have it in the repo, just try it out. > http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > > Root of this problem is NVIDIA is not publishing the specification for > its graphics cards (Intel and AMD/ATI does, so for future purchases it > is recommended to avoid nvidia). All we have is reverse engineered > driver and proprietary driver they provide. You could possibly go that > route as well. > > Fedora 13 also has nouveu by default, you can possibly try that if you > ar eok to move to a different distro. > > Praveen > -- > പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് > <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! > <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? > (as seen on /.) > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] -- Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) GNU system administrator http://GnuSys.net
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