Help pleasE!!
I followed method 2, to install the graphic driver, i uninstalled the nvida-kernel-common (it unistalled linux-386, linux-restricted-modules-386 and linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 and it make me install linux-image-2.6.12-10-386)
after the installing process begin the installer told me something about my kernel, if I wanted to download from
ftp://nvidia.blabla (i dont remember) because I didn't have something, I said "No" and the installer finished succesfully. I edited the xorg.conf, and started de GDM, the weird thing is when I entered my session in the notification area was a light, I clicked and it told me something like "a new kernel was installed and needs to restart the system to finish the updating", before to restart i did this
$ glxgears but the gears were spinning Veeeeery slowly
$ glxinfo and this one said
direct rendering=yes
Well i restarted the system, but Grub show me 2 new options!!! (now i had 6)
kernel 2-6-12-10-386 (and it respective safe mode) <---------- This is the new one!!
kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (and it respective safe mode)
memtest
WinXP
What happened?? what i did wrong?? how can I fix that?
I have a gforce fx5200 and the driver is the 1.0-8174 (downloaded from nvidia.com)
Please don't ask me why i decided to follow the hardest method, I know that I could do that from the repositories, and all that... I just wanted to install the latest driver... snif snif...
could you help me?
ps.- sorry for my english, but it's not my first language
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