Ratpoison graphics problem

[mersault]

Hi there,
I have recently installed Salix ratpoison Basic and when I go to

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startx

after logging in, the gui is corrupt. I have a nVidia geforce 7025, I'm not sure if I should address it as a ratpoison-specific problem, or troubleshoot as though it were xfce, fluxbox etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gapan]

It could be that the nouveau driver doesn't work correctly with your graphics card. Try removing the xf86-video-nouveau package. In a root console, run:

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spkg -d xf86-video-nouveau

Then it should use the old nv driver.

Or install the binary driver from nvidia.

[mersault]

Thank-you for the help; I ran

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spkg -d xf86-video-nouveau

and attempted

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startx

which failed so I rebooted the system and tried again which failed printing the same error message: "Fatal Server Error: No Screen Found" It also said "failed to load NV: this driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded" and something about it being 'claimed by the kernel' or something, so it doesn't seem to be reverting back to the NV driver successfully. Any more help would be great, my n00bishness thwarting me; also, haven't tried downloading/installing binary nvidia driver, will try that- how would I do that from the console? I'm not familiar with Slack, sorry

[gapan]

You can specify the nv driver specifically, following these instructions: http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/U ... org_driver

If you want to install the binary driver from nvidia, just install the kernel-source package with slapt-get, download the binary from nvidia and run it.