nvidia cards and others

[dhdarka]

Just had a fresh install Salix on my 64bit(basic not full). Booting was normal till it got to init4/login screen. My keyboard crash and my screen goes out of whack. So I end up taking out my nvidia card and used my ati integrated video card. Wala!! Login screen work. Download ftp nvidia site for my video drive and install the kernel-soruce. Poweroff my computer. Install video card. Turn on my computer. Getting the same problem as before keyboard and screen. It took me four hour on my cell phone searching around. Trying to figure out how to used lilo to get to init 3. (man im so lazy. I did not wanted to take out my video card again =_=) All in all. Is there another way around this? Without having to take out my video card? So I know next time. I still want to manual install nvidia in the end.

I find out I don't like the fell of xfce. I want fluxbox. But don't have anymore cd to spare. And for file manager. I don't mind the one that come with fluxbox. But I can't delete multiple different files using it. Sure I search. But that all that it give me other then tab. Would mc be a better chose or there something much better out there.

I had used Salix when 13.37 fluxbox came out. On my 32bit computer.

[maximus]

What's the model number of your nvidia card? I'll take an educated guess and suggest that the 'nouveau' driver, which is automatically loaded now when an nvidia card is detected, is not playing well with your particular model. Did you run the nvidia installer? If so, did the nvidia driver install proceed successfully? Any error messages? In recent versions of the nvidia binaries I have installed, it has detected the nouveau module being loaded and asks if I want to blacklist the nouveau module, to which you should answer 'yes' if you want to use the nvidia driver.

Basic procedure is as follows:

• At the lilo screen (when you see the pic of a tree), hit TAB
• Type in Linux 3 at the prompt, and hit ENTER
• Log in at the login prompt, using your users name and pass (not as root), hit ENTER
• If you have downloaded the nvidia binary already it will probably be in /home/username/Downloads, so typing cd Downloads and then ENTER should take you there (if you placed the file somewhere else, substitute the previous cd command with the correct directory path)
• Type ls NVIDIA* and ENTER, this will list any and all files in the current folder with names starting with NVIDIA
• Type su, hit ENTER, enter your root password, hit ENTER
• I see you've already installed the kernel source, so we'll skip the slapt-get -i kernel-source
• Type sh NVIDIA**************.run (use the name of the file that was listed by the ls command above), hit ENTER
• Follow the directions given by the installer, it will ask if you want to install 32bit compatability drivers, AFAIK unless you want to install multilib later on you don't need to install these. Remember to say yes when it prompts you to blacklist the nouveau driver
• After the install has completed you will be returned to the terminal screen. Typing shutdown -r now and hitting ENTER will immediately reboot your computer, when it restarts the nvidia binary module should be loaded and you should be good to go

[dhdarka]

Thanks. That help me out a bit. But how do I make fluxbox my main start up and uninstall xfce? I no longer have any more cd i can used. At less for the mean time(Like a month form now. Then I have the money to get some ).

[maximus]

I use XFCE and don't have much time to play with different DE's, but it should be as simple as installing fluxbox either via gslapt or slapt-get and then choosing 'fluxbox' from the session list at the gdm login screen. To remove XFCE, as far as I know just do a search for xfce in gslapt and mark it for removal, or in a terminal as root: slapt-get --remove xfce

[dhdarka]

How do I setup background image in fluxbox. I know it have something to do with "~/.fluxbox/menu". But that all.
How to I set color changes in urxvt. Like my name/root name and command text and so on.

[gapan]

How do I setup background image in fluxbox. I know it have something to do with "~/.fluxbox/menu". But that all.
How to I set color changes in urxvt. Like my name/root name and command text and so on.

I don't think you'll get much response to those questions in a thread titled about nvidia. People knowledgeable about fluxbox, but not about nvidia cards, are unlikely to take a peek. Try creating separate topics for separate problems with descriptive titles.