driver for GeForce 6200?

[mikeinsantarosa]

I just installed pclinuxos 2010 kde and everything seems to work except my display is max'd out at 1025x768 and I know it will go to 1280x1024. Do I need to install a different nvidia driver? and if so how do I do that?

thanks - mike

[T6]

hello and welcome to the forum

pclinux uses a app called synaptic that will allow you to update, add or remove the apps you need on the system

the first thing you should do after installing system is update system, press the reload button and apply all the updates

there is two places where you can set the resolution of the screen, poclinux control center/hardware/setup the graphical server, set it the value there, also the monitor if it is not detected properly, sometimes plug and play will be perfect

the other place is kde control center/system admin/screen/size and orientation

some video cards bypas the settings on pcc but others will accept whatever you set on pcc or kde

the video card you have can use the legacy version, 96.xx that comes integrated on the livecd, all you need to do is select it on the pcc menu i mentioned before but is almost sure it is already selected

[mikeinsantarosa]

OK, I updated 148 packages then went to system config and changed the monitor to plug & play. That changed my selections for display so that I could pick 1280x1024. When I clicked n Test the screen went black and I got the following error:
An error occurred:
(EE) May 23 19:58:51 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
(EE) May 23 19:58:51 NVIDIA(0):     system's kernel log for additional error messages and

Try to change some parameters

So I'm still at 1024x786

[mikeinsantarosa]

Actually the change was made from PCLOS Control center-Set up graphical server-monitor
mike

[Hootiegibbon]

mikeinsantarosa,

For the 6xxx series of nvidia cards use the dkms-nvidia-current package which is installed on the LiveCD.

With the monitor - what type is it? if its  aTFT LCD screen ten choose 'flatscreen 1280x1024' at 24bit depth

Then test it(on testing some of the 6200 cards will need you to use the cursor keys to select the ok button and enter to select)

With my 6200 card I also needed to use the nvidia configuration app (as root) to select the native 1280x1024 resolution as it wasalso downscaling to 2024x768.

Hope this helps

Jase 

[mikeinsantarosa]

I have a Planar flatscreen monitor. I tried all the available combinations of 1280x1024 including the generic & falatscreen picks.

>>dkms-nvidia-current package which is installed on the LiveCD
It looks like there's already 2 dkms-nvidia packages installed (synaptic)
Ones a dkms-nvidia96xx and the other is dkms-nvidia-current (looks like version 195.36.24)

>>Then test it
I tried all the 1280x1024's but I got vertical color bars on all of them.

>>With my 6200 card I also needed to use the nvidia configuration app (as root)
I'm kinda new to this linux stuff. What's the nvidia configuration app?
What do you mean?

[menotu]

>>Then test it
I tried all the 1280x1024's but I got vertical color bars on all of them.

Hi mikeinsantarosa

That's the norm - if you see the colours you should now be able to use it. You may need to log out and back in again for the change to occur.

[mikeinsantarosa]

that's crazy!
Here we go...

[mikeinsantarosa]

Boy, I'd have bet you lunch that wasn't going to work.
But it did.

Thanks!

[menotu]

Great! Now you can sit back and enjoy!

BTW, I'll expect fillet steak and all the trimmings for lunch