well finally got linux installed on my laptop....and it seems like everything works exept my display.....its on 800*600....and i cant get it higher....only got 2D on this thing...cus 9.0 does not support nvadia chips or something like that it said when i was installing!can anybody help me out on this please...i hate scrolling after each line i read

are you talking about the x config?
yeah- laptops can be tricky , because of all the proprietary hardware.

you can change the display by editing the xf86config file, or running some utility that may have been packaged with your distro?

oh, you are talking about you X display right?

i'm talking about the screen size....not sure ehat u mean with x display....but i think where talking about the same thing......

but how can i edit the xf86config file.....i am a real new linux user....dont hardly know anything about linux yet!!


my first problem is.....got my driver for nvidia in my ordner /home/devil/dokuments

and when i wanna my commands...to get there....i type cd home and i cant get in...but when i type cd bin i can get in to there...whats my problem??

ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.


wtf does this mean?? what is a X server??damnit....sitting here for hours just trying to figure out how to get my screen bigger

The X-Server is a GUI for unix systems ( like the "desktop" in windows ).
The Xfree86-Config file is in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). Open it with your favorite text editor, search for 800x600 and edit it
To install the Nvidia driver, you have to kill the X-Server.. for example by pressing ctrl-alt-shift.
If you have SuSe/Redhat/Mandrake it can happen, that the X-Server restarts automatically. So you have to type "ps -e" and kill the gdm/kdm process ( kill -9 <process-id> )

well just did that.....and it did not work......said something about a kernel i need that it couldnt make

Mhh... perhaps your distribution did not install the kernel sources :/
So which distribution do you use?

well i'm using suse linux 9.0....just installed it today....everything is working fine just my picture is to big!!

Ok... to learn some basics about linux and to get your Nvidia problem solved, you should compile a kernel yourself. If you want to do so, look at http://armin.emx.at/kernel_2.6/kernel_2.6_howto.html and at http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1804

Also, if you really want to figure out how to use linux, get rid of the Xwindows environment and stick with the CLI for a month or two (or three or four) until you are comfortable w/out the GUI. By that time you will know how to compile software, use configuration files, view/kill processes and most importantly, you should know how to use man and info.

Yes... so i would recommend a linux distribution you have to install per CLI ( i would take Gentoo, www.gentoo.org ). Read the documentation and you will learn a lot.

i am gonna stick with linux....thats for sure.....just gotta figure out how this works.....i thought it would be easy....but i was wrong....all my exe files are useless here...damn....so gotta figure out how to get or use open sorces.....hehe this is gonna be fun....and all u guys out there are gonna have some laughs with my questions!!!

this works on suse 9.0

first of all u have to install the kernelsources (kernel-source.rpm)

ok, on console log in as "su" type your root password
type "init 3"
than run your nvidia.............installer.run
"sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run"
after that configure your xserver by
"sax2 -m 0=nvidia"
type init 5
now you may configure your screen size with sax2

if sax2 says your 3d accelaration is not enabled, ignore it, it is enabled


greetz
rockerx

Man,

Why do you need those "EXE" files?.. You will get better alternatives for all those things in Linux... Just tell me what are those important EXE files which you want to use, I can tell you the better one which will do the work in Linux... Hey hey..!!. About Display issue, Don't jump in to everything, Take a breathe and read before you do things which you dont know well.. Ok?.. Saying this because I was like that... Experiance is a great teacher.. right or wrong?

Nice day man,
Manu

do you mean those "run" files manu?
if u want full support of your nvidia card u have to use them, there is no alternative

oops, sorry manu, u meant those wine loving people and real exe files