Hi guys,

I just bought a recent DELL laptop and got Linux & X running on it
tonight.......just wanted to know how you could update Linux to use
the driver for the graphics card you have. Here's my DELL laptop
video spec:

256MB Ge Force 7300 Graphics card for Inspiron 6400/E1505


So, I am pretty lost as to what to do w/ this information. I don't
see this video card listed under the ones in
'xorgconfig'...........and when I select NVIDIA default, I only get
640x480 in KDE. The same thing (640x480) happens when I select
Generic VGA too. Do I have to rebuild the kernel w/ support for my
card? I totally don't know what to do here.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.


Thanks,

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:42:06 -0700, ahmedaden wrote:

> So, I am pretty lost as to what to do w/ this information. I don't
> see this video card listed under the ones in
> 'xorgconfig'...........and when I select NVIDIA default, I only get
> 640x480 in KDE. The same thing (640x480) happens when I select
> Generic VGA too. Do I have to rebuild the kernel w/ support for my
> card? I totally don't know what to do here.


Try this link to download the nvidia driver:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-9755.html

This is not an open source driver.

Then you run it as a shell script. Move to the directory where the
download resides and run it as root:

sh ./NVIDIA_file_name_blah

It will build the module for your card and will offer to create an x
configuration file for you. The file it created on this vaio laptop was ok,
and only needed a little bit of tweaking (z axis for mouse wheel, mouse driver,
and I had to set the resolution as it is 1280 x 800).

If you upgrade the kernel you will need to rerun the package, so keep it
somewhere handy.

paul_s

Thanks Paul,

Works like a charm! Now I'm doing around 1400x900

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:12:14 -0700, ahmedaden wrote:

> Thanks Paul,

You're welcome.


> Works like a charm! Now I'm doing around 1400x900

Glad to hear that.

All the best.

paul_s