FINALLY! Need to install Graphics card though...........help anyone?

[Koobs]

Well i finally got this stupid lap top to take a OS. I tried redhat and with many failed attempts tried debian. Well it now works. But during installation it did not read the proper graphics card (Nvidia) that comes with the POWERBOOK G4.

Well im a complete noob wen it comes to installing the new drivers.

I was wondering if someone can help with with this? I downloaded the IA64 driver off the NVIDIA site and it asked me to save or open with KWIRE. well i opened with KWIRE and now wat? it loaded something but i dono what to do now to apply it. I only get a max resolutioni of 800x600!!!

i read part of the read me file and it said to turn off x server and change to vga settings. how do i do this?

thanks guys.

Also is there anything else i should be installing or adding? what about sound card?[/u][/b]

[antidrugue]

The file that interest you is either
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86config-4

... depending of your distro.

Edit this file (as root) -- being sure you make a backup before!

There is a section that should look like this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

There you can specify the resolution (put one that your video driver accepts!)

Keep in mind that only the "DefaultDepth" matters.

Afterwards, hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart X.

Hope this help...

For more help type in a shell : man XF86config-4
or: man xorg.conf