new nvidia grfx card

I don't see what so bad or so difficult about installing the driver manually. I've never had any luck with automated methods, and I've never had trouble with the NVidia method...

 

i now know what the problem is: my GPU i no longer supported by the latest NVidia drivers, so i need to find the drivers for my GPU, better get searching

BTW: thankies for all you help AT

 

What kind of video card do you have?

 

i have narrowed the drivers down that will work with my

my grfx cards PCI ID is: 0x00F3, according to this page, and apparently i need driver version 1.9-97xx which according to NVidia's driver archive, here i need either 9746 or 9755 however i've tried both drivers (using NVidia-xconfig automatically on installation) but neither worked

BTW: i thinik wait until i get my little LAN running

 

Your card is supported by the latest drivers. The legacy drivers are for really old cards, not yours. Just try the current build.

 

right, i'm obviously the problem, so as i'm using an original DL of feisty i've started to DL again n i'll start from scratch or shall i just delete ~.kde and reinstall ?

 

KDE's not the problem either, actually. You just need to get the kernel module for your video card loaded, then get X configured to use it.

 

Try

Code:

sudo apt-get install restricted-manager
sudo restricted-manager

There's also a debian way to do it using module-assistant.

 

cheers Addis, but AT very very kindly offered to remotely fix this problem via SSH, i've added ATs details to my system & router, so i'm just waiting for AT, but thankies anyway, hopefully it'll be sorted soon