On 5/20/05, Phil Savoie <psavoie1783@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop which is an AMD 64 3400+ with a GeForce > 440 GO 64mb video card. I have tried a number of times installing either the > nvidia package from livna or the package from NVIDIA with the same results. > On successful installation of the video drivers from either source, the > screen has a 1/2 inch vertical black bar on the right hand side followed by a > 1/4 inch vertical bar of desktop followed by a vertical black bar approx 1 > 1/2 inches in width. The whole desktop looks to be shifted to the left and > there is about a 3/4 inch of really weird stuff horizontally across the > bottom of my screen. > > I was hoping someone on this list would have a reasonable facsimile type > laptop and have successfully installed the drivers resulting in a "proper" > display of the gui (KDE in my case) and would like to share their solution > with me. > > Thanks in advance, > > Phil Not only are there some here with similar laptops, there is whole other list of people who have installed Linux on the R3000Z series laptop: The list: http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Our Wiki: http://prinsig.se/weekee/ And here is your answer: http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Video_%28hw%29#nVidia Just add the indicated line to /etc/modprobe.conf options nvidia NVreg_Mobile=0 You need this for version 6629 on. I'm using a patched version of that driver since the 7100 series drivers seem to have issues with bzFlag. Jonathan
