changing screen resolution and enabling 3d desktop

[oki_180sx]

aight so i just installed mandriva a few hours ago and im still extremely new to linux
well my first problem is it won't allow me to change the resolution higher than 800x600. which really sucks.
i don't think it is recognizing my monitor for some reason

the second, is that i cannot enable 3d desktop

im am running an integrated nvidia geforce 7100gs

so any help?

thanks

EDIT:
I fixed my resolution problem. the only thing left is 3d desktop. im betting i need to install a driver of some sort right?

EDIT2:
while messing around with the drivers, i went to log out then log back on and on the log back in, it takes me straight to command line. so im guessing i messed something up. is there anyway to fix this from command line? or what should i do?

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

You can edit your xorg.conf file from the command line with the following commands:

su

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you haven't already installed the official nvidia drivers, you can try using the nv or the vesa driver to get the GUI going again.

[oki_180sx]

thanks man
through some intense googling, i found that and edited my driver back to vesa. now im just trying to get my nvidia drivers working. im a little bit stuck on that right now

[oz]

I don't run Mandriva, but I'm thinking you can probably install the nvidia drivers by setting up and then using URPMI:

urpmi install nvidia

Maybe someone that runs Mandriva can verify this before you try it. If that won't work, you can at least install the drivers from the nVidia website, but that can often turn into extra work.

[oki_180sx]

hmm
aight i typed
urpmi nvidia
and it said the driver was already installed. so right now im really confused that everytime i select
"nvidia geforce fx and later"

it get an error whenever i test it that says

An error occurred:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:0:16:0. 
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please see the COMMON PROBLEMS section in the README for

Try to change some parameters

ive been messing with it for a while now and can't really find anything that works

edit:
if this helps, here is my xorg.conf file

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    Driver "vesa"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

[bigtomrodney]

Change the driver from vesa back to nvidia and reboot (not just restart X). When it comes up again run the following command

/sbin/lsmod |grep -i nvidia

This will tell you if the nvidia module has loaded correctly. Post back and let us know.

[oki_180sx]

when i did that, i got

nvidia                    6213232     0
agpgart                     27592     1    nvidia
izc_core                   20384      1   nvidia

and all the nvidia's were red

im not sure what that means but this is what i got

[bigtomrodney]

Damn, that looks right...did you get the usual X server error?

[oki_180sx]

usual x server error? whats that?

EDIT:
im also looking at buying a msi nx8500gt video card in a few days maybe
it uses a nvidia chipset but is made by msi. so how would i go about installing this for linux