NVIDIA Problem?

Yuki_Nagato · n00b Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 2

The same general thing happens when I boot to the GParted CDs as when I boot to the Gentoo Live CD i686 2007.0. It initially starts up, and then crashes and quits on me when it is unable to launch the X System.

To start, the computer is running a NVIDIA PureVideo graphics card.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject:

Yuki_Nagato,

Welcome to Gentoo.

The 2007.0 CD is a year old now. Its drivers may be too old for your hardware.
Can you boot successfullly is you give the nox option to the kernel at boot time ?
This would allow you to install but without Xorg until you can configure your own with a newer driver.

You may also want to consider the 2008_beta2 Gentoo liveCD, which is the latest Gentoo liveCD
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

kkuehne · n00b Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Ulm, Germany

Can you provide us with any error message or output?

d2_racing · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Does the 2008.0 LiveCD boots on your box ?

Yuki_Nagato · n00b Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 2

Alright.

The 2008.0 does boot up "correctly." The X Window system apparently does boot up and I end up looking at the XFCE Desktop environment. Unfortunately, I am unable to do anything as I only have one USB keyboard and one USB mouse. Neither is recognized by the beta, and I am unable to do anything other than pull the plug.

I am not sitting at the actually computer, but I will drop the error here soon.

Does anyone know if PureVideo is even compatible with Linux? I hear it falls onto the unsupported side of the nVidia fence.