iaw4
November 5th, 2009, 03:12 AM
I installed 9.10 on an inspiron 8200. nice old machine with 1600x1200 resolution. (watch this, apple!)
I then installed the proprietary nvidia driver. this proceeded fine until the reboot, when instead of a graphical screen, I got a black screen. nothing worked (not even ctrl-alt-backspace). so, I pulled the plug, booted into recovery command line mode, eliminated /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and probably tried a few other things), and now I have a screen back.
alas, [a] I don't know whether I am running an unaccelerated or an accelerated driver now (how do I find out?); and [b] if it is the former, what magic incantations are needed to get the accelerated driver to work. I would love to get some speed up for dvd viewing at least.
/iaw
I then installed the proprietary nvidia driver. this proceeded fine until the reboot, when instead of a graphical screen, I got a black screen. nothing worked (not even ctrl-alt-backspace). so, I pulled the plug, booted into recovery command line mode, eliminated /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and probably tried a few other things), and now I have a screen back.
alas, [a] I don't know whether I am running an unaccelerated or an accelerated driver now (how do I find out?); and [b] if it is the former, what magic incantations are needed to get the accelerated driver to work. I would love to get some speed up for dvd viewing at least.
/iaw