After a long time compiling, I was finally ready to see if X would start for me this morning when I got to work. Well, what fun would this whole process be if it worked :) It didn't. So I poked around the XF86Config file and changed a few things. Then I tried to restart X. At least this time I got some semblance of X starting, although it was all kinds of squigly lines. So after an hour of poking around on the net, I finally found an article on NVidia's website that points me to a new driver that I had to download and install. Well, everything is up and running now, except it's all scrunched in the middle of my screen. There is a large black area surrounding it. I do remember seeing somethign about using the zoom feature to fill the screen. I'll have to do further research on that. But for now, it's back to work :(
Posted by doug at January 15, 2004 11:18 AMWhen I had an NVidia card in insanity, I think the best anyone could do was X for the blind. Super giant icons. Mousing forever just to get to the other side of the desktop. It was a good time. I'm glad you had better luck than me.
Posted by: stacey at January 15, 2004 04:39 PMfn-f7 on my laptop is the "font" key. that changes the size of a text console, which runs at those lower resolutions, i think.
Posted by: john at January 16, 2004 09:16 AMThanks.. the fn-f7 key "zooms" the screen.. but i've gotten used to this actually.. It is annoying, but if I "zoom" it, the resolution isn't all that great.. only 1024x768 :(
Posted by: doug at January 19, 2004 01:45 PM