Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 on NLD 9

John Szwec

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Jun 28, 2006, 9:00:26 AM6/28/06

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Hello, I bought a new Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics card for my IBM x
Series 226 server. I have added the card in the System tools > Hardware
interface. then I shutdown the server and installed the card. the server
boots but it eventually just comes to a complete black screen. I have made
the settings for the new card identical (as far as resolution and color
depth, I also added the same monitor to the config) to the on-board card
that's listed in the system tools > hardware. I would like to get the new
card working and I'm sure it's not too difficult but my Linux experience is
limited. Can anyone please point me in the right direction.
thank you
John Szwec

John Szwec

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Jun 28, 2006, 9:09:49 AM6/28/06

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Mark Robinson

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Jun 28, 2006, 5:23:53 PM6/28/06

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Sounds like you need to boot to run level 3 and run sax2 -r to set up your
graphics from scratch...

I assume you're seeing the boot prompt etc???

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Mark Robinson
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Mark Robinson

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Jun 28, 2006, 5:23:52 PM6/28/06

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dup

John Szwec

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Jun 28, 2006, 6:15:21 PM6/28/06

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hello Mark,

thank you for replying.
That was the advice that my friend gave me. However, when I boot to NLD and
have the graphics desktop open. I then procedd to open a terminal window. I
type init 3 at the prompt and the OS simply reboots. It never leaves me in
Runlevel 3. Is there somthing that I need to do to get to runlevel 3 that
i'm unaware of?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank
You
John Szwec
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Mark Robinson

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Jun 29, 2006, 4:42:54 AM6/29/06

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:15:21 +0000, John Szwec wrote:

> hello Mark,
>
> thank you for replying.
> That was the advice that my friend gave me. However, when I boot to NLD
> and have the graphics desktop open. I then procedd to open a terminal
> window. I type init 3 at the prompt and the OS simply reboots. It never
> leaves me in Runlevel 3. Is there somthing that I need to do to get to
> runlevel 3 that i'm unaware of?

That's not normal behaviour. When you first boot the machine, add 3 to
the boot prompt and that should take you into runlevel 3 without going to
5 first...

John Szwec

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Jul 5, 2006, 9:01:14 AM7/5/06

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Hello Mark,

Looks like I was trying to install a 64 bit card in a 32 bit slot. Since I
only have 32 bit PCI slots available I have returned the card.
Once I get a hold of a 32 bit card i will try again.
However, I did get the machine to boot to runlevel 3 by typing 3 on the boot
line, and run the sax2 from there.
I was booting the OS to Runlevel 5, opening a terminal window and typing
init 3, this caused the OS to completely reboot.

thanks for your help.

John

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