On May 20, 2005 23:09, Jonathan Berry wrote: > 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 Thank you sir. I now have a working installation. I really appreciate the extra info as well as I didn't know about the compaq/hp mailing list. Thanks again. Phil
