Grav3Mind Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I cant install and form or fashion of linux...the graphical interface ALWAYS says that it fails to load....*sigh* i even tried open SUSE last night.... still nothing. any ideas?? Grav3 PS: its a Geforce pci 5500 fx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Which NVIDIA card do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 just use an ubuntu alternate cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 whats your card? and have you checked the drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 whats your card? and have you checked the drivers? exactly, What is YOUR CARD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlinebacon Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 He already said its a fx5500 pci card It should work with the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site. What error messages do you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese N' Pancakes Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 He already said its a fx5500 pci card It should work with the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site. What error messages do you get? pretty sure he edited that in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I cant install and form or fashion of linux...the graphical interface ALWAYS says that it fails to load....*sigh* i even tried open SUSE last night.... still nothing. any ideas??Grav3 PS: its a Geforce pci 5500 fx That should work. How do you install the driver? BTW, in order to have at least the nv driver, in SUSE type "sax2" (without the quotes) from the command line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlinebacon Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 pretty sure he edited that in Oooops It didn't say it was edited so I wasn't sure... new forums do things different ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satyr Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I cant install and form or fashion of linux...the graphical interface ALWAYS says that it fails to load....*sigh* i even tried open SUSE last night.... still nothing. any ideas?? Grav3 PS: its a Geforce pci 5500 fx I have the same problem on my desktop computer with 6600. To solve this, you have to use vesa or nvidia drivers, not nv (nv seems to be buggy with some cards). Open xorg.conf and find "nv" reference then change it to vesa or download and install nvidia drivers and change "nv" to "nvidia". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 I have the same problem on my desktop computer with 6600. To solve this, you have to use vesa ornvidia drivers, not nv (nv seems to be buggy with some cards). Open xorg.conf and find "nv" reference then change it to vesa or download and install nvidia drivers and change "nv" to "nvidia". Again, in SUSE start sax2 from the command line and you'll have some kind of graphical interface. From there you can download and install the NVIDIA drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 complain to suse, nvidia, and canonical(and anybody else suitable :sarcastic:)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilma Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 i use almost the same card Nvidia GeFORCE FX5500 but the agp version. and is supported natively on most linux distributions i have tried. Fedora core 4, Ubuntu, Solaris 10 to name a few. OSX is happy with natit dual 0.2 drivers. I dunno if PCI/AGP makes so much difference in compatibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzobelmont Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 maybe NO LINUX DISTRO likes YOU (almost) every nvidia card is configurable under linux. please RTFM of nvidia drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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