linux graphics driver ?

[jst0ney]

I've just installed Fedora Core 3 and upon installation it detected my video card (geForce 4 xxx) and monitor. When I log into linux my max screnn resolution is 800x600. Do I need to install nvidia drivers or is something else wrong. I can't work at this resolution.

Thanks.

 

[drag]

If you go down to the application menu you can find a hardware configuration tool were you can specify a higher resolution for your monitor.

Or you can go and edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf youself manually and tell it your horizontal and vertical refresh rates and maybe get it more accurate that way. Look on the internet for samples... Used to be /etc/X11/XF86Config, but they are pretty much the same.

Otherwise head on down to the nvidia website and install their propriatory drivers in order to get 3d acceleration. Read the "readme" file very carefully and it will tell you what to do.

Since your new to Linux it will be a pain in the rear, but once you get used to how everything works it's fairly easy and simple thing to do.

 

[jst0ney]

Cool got the drivers and got it working. Now if I can only get my wireless card working.

 

[drag]

Well the first step of that is to identify what your make/model and chipset of your wireless adapter is.
this page may help out

If your lucky you may have native linux drivers aviable, if your not you may have to use a NDIS driver for Linux which adapts windows drivers to be used in Linux, and even then not all wireless cards work with that.

The most common cards are the Prism2 cards, these are 108.11b cards. Same as 2.5 and prism 3 cards for the most part (which are just newer versions of the prism2 chipset).

Not to be confused with the prism54 108.11g cards, which are very different.

edit:

Oh ya. Try this command first as root and see if the card is detected and setup first, you may just have to go thru a couple extra network configuration steps:
iwconfig

that will show the all the aviable network interfaces and check to see if they have wireless extensions aviable for use. If your card shows up in their, then you could avoid dealing with more modules and whatnot.

 

[jst0ney]

Thanks a ton drag. I messed up some stuff as root (with the NDIS driver) last night so I'm reinstalling today. I should be up and running soon. Thanks again you are more helpful than google.