I have a problem. (Don't we all...) I cannot get my AMD64X2 machine to successfully boot with my NVidia 7600 video card. I have an AMD64X2 4200+ ASUS motherboard with a MSI NVidia 7600 video card, 2GB of memory, one SATA drive - 329GB and one IDE drive - 250 GB. Every time I boot with the NVidia driver, freshly downloaded from NVidia's website and installed the last time I rebooted, it fails. At that point I switch over to tty1, switch to init level 1, reinstall the driver, switch to init level 5 and login.
It works, but is far from intuitive, especially when the questions from NVidia come, like the one that "informs the user that installing the driver at init 1 is the equivalent to trying to blow up your computer" or words to that effect. I can't imagine too many newbies picking up on the fact that you not only can, you have to proceed if you want high level graphics that come from the nvidia driver..
If anyone has a way to solve it that is better than mine (for example not having to do any of this crap at all), please pass it on to the great unwashed riding this rock around the sun :0.
It works, but is far from intuitive, especially when the questions from NVidia come, like the one that "informs the user that installing the driver at init 1 is the equivalent to trying to blow up your computer" or words to that effect. I can't imagine too many newbies picking up on the fact that you not only can, you have to proceed if you want high level graphics that come from the nvidia driver..
If anyone has a way to solve it that is better than mine (for example not having to do any of this crap at all), please pass it on to the great unwashed riding this rock around the sun :0.
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