Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Rafa Kamraj
Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel

[newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi Dennis, mandrake 10 and 10.1 included NVidia driver in the CD, if you have a problem with the new driver from nvidia.com, you can used the driver from your Mandrake Distro. Teddy On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:52:39 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:52, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-16 Thread Hans-Cees Speel
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
I changed to Alsa drivers, that restored the sound, your suggestion for KDE appears to have worked. Thanks for the advice. David Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David Trethewey wrote: I changed to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce

RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread dgordon8
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Trethewey Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-14 Thread David Trethewey
I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. -- Your random fortune: Torque is cheap. # File generated by XFdrake. #

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:46, David B. Williams wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 04:11 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Alex Brooks
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Kevin Ferguson
David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Alex Brooks
Kevin Ferguson wrote: David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? __ The older Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site will recompile to fit the current kernel; the installer will do all the work

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread David B. Williams
On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
On May 2, 2004, at 21:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-01 Thread David B. Williams
Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Short answer: Yes. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 22 November 2003 15:18, Andreas Dittrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry if this has been asked before but after 2 days I wasnt able to sort it out and this is a newbie-list ;-) I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:18 am, Andreas Dittrich wrote: I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the nvidia-driver for my GF4 MX. It says it cant find the header files. I'm running the 2.4.22.10 kernel (standard 9.2 ?) and I installed a src-RPM for that kernel. You

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread Andreas Dittrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer schrieb: | On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:18 am, Andreas Dittrich wrote: | |I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the |nvidia-driver for my GF4 MX. It says it cant find the header files. I'm |running the 2.4.22.10

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2003-10-13 Thread Drew Martin
Hello All, I'm trying(very badly) to install the Nvidia drivers on to our pc.I'm running 9.2 rc2,p3 500,256ram. I can shut down the x-sever with no problems,but when I cd to file location,I get no such dicretory or this a diretory and can not do anything. I had no problems

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2003-10-13 Thread mike
which version of the driver are you trying? have you checked the permissions ? did you install in run level 3 ? do you know how to use mc ( midnight commander ) ? Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I'm trying(very badly) to install the Nvidia drivers on to our pc.I'm running 9.2

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2003-10-13 Thread Drew Martin
, October 13, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers which version of the driver are you trying? have you checked the permissions ? did you install in run level 3 ? do you know how to use mc ( midnight commander ) ? Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I'm trying(very

[newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread xp
I decided to install new drivers for my graphic card (GF4Ti) and it was my mistake :-P. I choosed tar.gz files and i downloaded them from www.nvidia.com. As You know graphic drivers have 2 files (GLX, kernel) and i have troubles with kernel, whilei done "tar xvzf" command, entered info

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:26, xp wrote: I decided to install new drivers for my graphic card (GF4Ti) and it was my mistake :-P. I choosed tar.gz files and i downloaded them from www.nvidia.com . As You know graphic drivers have 2 files (GLX, kernel) and i have troubles with kernel, while i

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:26:50 +0100 xp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to install new drivers for my graphic card (GF4Ti) and it was my mistake :-P. I choosed tar.gz files and i downloaded them from www.nvidia.com . As You know graphic drivers have 2 files (GLX, kernel) and i have troubles

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread raq
Subject: Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:26:50 +0100 xp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to install new drivers for my graphic card (GF4Ti) and it was my mistake :-P. I choosed tar.gz files and i downloaded them from www.nvidia.com . As You know graphic drivers have 2

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread raq
mandrake 9.0 ok i will try, i hope it will work :P - Original Message - From: Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:26:50 +0100 xp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
, 2003 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:26:50 +0100 xp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to install new drivers for my graphic card (GF4Ti) and it was my mistake :-P. I choosed tar.gz files and i downloaded them from www.nvidia.com . As You

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:42, raq wrote: oh, one thing what is trhe diference between .src.rpm and i586.rpm ? because i dont know sory for that stupid question but i really don't know :P (lame in linux :)) Not a stupid question. If it's got src in it, then it's a SOURCE RPM - it contains the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:55, Robin Turner wrote: Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club

RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread jamie . kerwick
Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 October 2002 01:12 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:55, Robin Turner wrote: Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 14 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: How would I go about making the drivers from source ?? -- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that come with the source which actually work (I've found in the past nvidia instructions to not be 100% accurate)??

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Kristjan
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:14:04 -0400 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: How would I go about making the drivers from source ?? -- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that come with the source which actually work

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Robin Turner
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club site. \begin{irrelevance} And no, I am not going to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Robin, You can find the drivers in: A) The mandrake Club download mirrors B) ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 13 October 2002 05:55 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake

[newbie] Nvidia Drivers and ML9b4

2002-08-30 Thread Jim Gentry
Has anyone gotten the current Nvidia drivers from Nvidia's web site to work with ML9b4? I tried, but now Xwindows refuses to start. I followed the instructions in the README. Am I missing something or does ML9 require new rpm's? Jim Gentry Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta3

2002-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:13:02 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried installing from source to get the commercial NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta 3 but get the following error message. Anyone have an idea as to what I am missing here? TIA for any help.

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta3

2002-08-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 18 August 2002 08:13 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I tried installing from source to get the commercial NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta 3 but get the following error message. Anyone have an idea as to what I am missing here? TIA for any help.

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta3

2002-08-20 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 09:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:13:02 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried installing from source to get the commercial NVidia drivers on 9.0 beta 3 but get the following error message. Anyone have an idea as to what I am

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2002-06-26 Thread john drouhard
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 02:18 am, you wrote: Are you sure what your's motherbord support the AGPX4 cards? I am sure that my mobo does NOT support 4x AGP, but can use 2x. I am only able to use 16MB, but that's ok. Do you think that that would make a difference? John Drouhard Want to buy

[newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Gregorio Pérez Aguilera
Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using the usual method explainded in the Nvidia README file: - Downloading the source files. - Compilling and installing: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Dave
Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2 Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread s
On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers snipped The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio when it

[newbie] Nvidia drivers Success...NOT!

2001-11-25 Thread Mr. E.
I spoke too soon about having Nvidia drivers working I think I screwed something up yesterday. After Tux Racer locked up, I re-read the docs for the Nvidia drivers and went and modified the PAM security module (as suggested if OpenGL apps exit with an error): I disabled the security feature

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Success...NOT!

2001-11-25 Thread R C
Mr E, I had the same problem when I edited the console.perm file. The first thing I did was, (and this is experience from old DOS files) was to comment out the line: # dri.=/dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia* When I rebooted, I too could not get X started...I kept getting thrown back to console mode,

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers (SUCCESS)

2001-11-25 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:46:29 -0600, Mr. E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Only slight problem.. when I finished a race in Tux Racer, the system locked and wouldn't respond (tried Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc but no good).. Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't work either. I had to press Reset button. snip

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Success...NOT!... so fast.

2001-11-25 Thread Traci Collins
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 10:53, Mr. E. wrote: So, now I'm at square one... no nvidia drivers installed I'll try to install the drivers again. I figured something went wrong by me using the rpm drivers at first, then trying the tar files, then modifying that console.perm file.. so I'll

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers (SUCCESS)

2001-11-24 Thread Mr. E.
Yeah,thanks from me, too. I was having trouble with the Nvidia RPM's from the Mandrakeuser.org site. I was able to install the rpm's. X would start. The Nvidia logo would appear and I'd get to the KDE desktop. BUT, OpenGL wouldn't work. 1) I didn't know how to quit X. or boot up without X

RE: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
|- Original Message - |From: David .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:31 PM |Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers | | | | Yes edit the XF86Config-4 before you reboot with the changes needed |for the | video drivers. | | From: R C

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-23 Thread Traci Collins
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 07:31, Robert MacLean wrote: there is no need to reboot. when you are at the command prompt, edit the config file and type startx. it will then attempt to load x. if it fails it will kick you back to the console. otherwise it will work Hi! I am wondering what I

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
Yes edit the XF86Config-4 before you reboot with the changes needed for the video drivers. From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:38:38 -0500 Ok, I appreciate all your help. I understand

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread Robert MacLean
- From: David .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Yes edit the XF86Config-4 before you reboot with the changes needed for the video drivers. From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
all the make's and changes while in KDE. From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:55:53 -0500 Hi All, This is going to be a very elementary question...but it's my first time! I'm going to try

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread Robert MacLean
: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers I'm somewhat new at this as well. But here it goes, this worked for me, just did it last night. run tar -zxvf files downloaded -This will create two directories. -CD into the dir with the kernal -Run make -Once done, then do make install. Next move to the dir

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
Oops. I thought he had downloaded the tar version of the source files. From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:38:20 +0200 the tar command will only work

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Onur Kucuk
CD Hi, CD I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in LM8.1, but CD the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to LM8.0. Is there any CD chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? Not unless you downgrade your kernel, but dont even think about it :) You can use

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Robert MacLean
: Charles Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1 CD Hi, CD I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in LM8.1, but CD the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up

[newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-21 Thread R C
Hi All, This is going to be a very elementary question...but it's my first time! I'm going to try to install the NVidia Drivers from their website onto my system. I find so much conflicting information in all the installatin guides and readme files that I'm totally confused. I have an idea

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-21 Thread Robert MacLean
- Original Message - From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 7:55 AM Subject: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Hi All, This is going to be a very elementary question...but it's my first time! I'm going to try to install the NVidia Drivers from

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-21 Thread R C
disks can be installed this way. and 2. Simplicity! Thanks again, Roger On Thursday 22 November 2001 01:56 am, I received the following message: - Original Message - From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 7:55 AM Subject: [newbie] NVidia

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-21 Thread R C
Ok, I appreciate all your help. I understand why I shouldn't use Software Manager for this particular installation. One other thingafter I install these drivers from console mode, should I edit my XF86Config-4 file as well, BEFORE rebooting? and what should I do in case X will not start

[newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Charles Darcy
Hi, I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in LM8.1, but the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to LM8.0. Is there any chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? The site also provides a source srpm. If the LM8.0 rpm is unusable, perhaps I can generate

RE: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature |sensors) for LM8.1 | | |Hi, | |I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in |LM8.1, but the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to |LM8.0. Is there any chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? | |The site also provides

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and LM8.1

2001-10-04 Thread Derek Jennings
That happened to me as well. When I ran Control centre and went into the advanced Hardware/Display settings it told me I was running XFree ver 3 even though I had expressly selected 4.10 in the install. After selecting XFree4.10 it all worked OK. I am beginning to think 8.1 could have done

[newbie] Nvidia drivers and 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure on MDK 7.2

2001-09-11 Thread Franki
Hi all, just wondering if there is anyone out there who has managed to get nvidia drivers working with with mandrake 7.2 with the updated 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure kernel... I would like to try using my TNT2 32mb card with tuxracer (be the first time I have used linux for games..) but no point in

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers / RAM filesystem / Want to make Eterm nexus font larger...

2001-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcin Jendrzejewski wrote: Hi everyone, Howdy! ;-) 3. And thirdly, I'm using Eterm with the nexus font and at a resolution of 1024x768 it's a tad small for my eyes. I'm wondering whether it's possible to make the nexus font any larger. I suspect it's not, but if not, does anyone have

[newbie] NVidia Drivers 1.0-1512 and newer kernels works for 2.4.8-17mdk

2001-09-06 Thread civileme
OK, folks, I can't really help you on this one. I think closed source drivers are the quintessence of evil and I'll have to put a wreath of garlic on my computer, and sprinkle it with holy water after this cross-post. But here it is FWIW Hi Here is how I did it, on an older installation

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) NEED HELP FROM KERNEL GURU!

2001-07-29 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
I feel so good to be able to help a fellow newbie...two weeks ago and I didn't know how to compile these drivers myself /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) NEED HELP FROM KERNEL GURU!

2001-07-24 Thread Kernell32
Hmm glx is installed fine i guess. The kernel wont install thats weird i never seen that one before ... did you do any changes to it? Do you use a custom kernel or is it the default ? What kernel version is it? The default mandrake8 kernel should work fine. Thing is i dont know allmost

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
Here is a snip of the nvidias own readme that you find from the same section of nvidias homepage there where you can download the tars. This snip concerns the tar install prozess . I repeat: Use the tars not the rpms and follow the instructions from THIS readme DONT use the instructions that

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread james
:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers instead of using the 1251 drivers. Has anyone tried this to resolve the seg. fault

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread Terry C
: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run Chromium, or Tuxracer by changing to the nVidia 769 drivers

Re: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again)

2001-07-23 Thread Kernell32
installed - Original Message - From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:09 PM Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers (again) I am wondering if I may be able to resolve the segmentation fault errors I am getting trying to run

[newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Thread Terry C
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when

[newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Thread Terry C
I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives? Right now I have it set up to auto login when

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2001-07-02 Thread John
On Monday 02 July 2001 08:28, you wrote: I just did an install of 8.0 and from what I've read I don't think that I want to use the 1251 drivers. (VIA chipset) :-( Anyone know where I can find the 769 drivers? Also, what is the best way to deal with the KDM problem? What are the alternatives?

[newbie] nVidia drivers on patched kernel

2001-06-23 Thread Miark
I asked before how to apply the new nVidia drivers to a patched kernel. Well, I found my answer at nVidia (duh). They have a src rpm for the job. So I do the rebuild, but then when I install it, I get the following errors: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in

[newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Sque
Hi List. I used software update and updated the kernel and other software for 7.2, all went well. Sadly I didn't do it after installing the video drivers from Nvidia as they wont the old version of the kernel. Im very much a newbie and am unsure which way to go. I got the source for the drivers

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread s
If they are rpms then go to run level 3 (ctrl+alt+backspace) and log in as root, then type: cd towherethedriversare then: rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.xxx.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-xxx.rpm (whatever they are exactly called). Then type: exit, startx, and see if

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Miark
] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers. If they are rpms then go to run level 3 (ctrl+alt+backspace) and log in as root, then type: cd towherethedriversare then: rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.xxx.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-xxx.rpm

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread Tim Faircloth
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, s wrote: If they are rpms then go to run level 3 (ctrl+alt+backspace) and log in as root, then type: cd towherethedriversare then: rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel.xxx.rpm and rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX-xxx.rpm (whatever they are exactly called).

[newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread John W
I have tried the nvidia kernel and GLX 1.xx drivers and cannot run any games other than the standard penguin comand and the *tris variants with the exception of Chromium. What a well designed game by the way. Reminds me of my days as a kid in the arcades. When I try mesa gears or reflection

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread Sal Portillo
Hello You might try the following guide: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00022.asp It explains how to install the Nvidia drivers from tar files. Thsi skips the rpm's which might have been built for a different kernel. also check out the Linux newbie site:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread hellmut
Hi! I have a K6-2, 450 mhz, 256 megs ram and an ELSA Erazor III Pro videocard (TNT 2 chip). I also installed the RPM's for Mandrake 8 and it runs very well, only one time the X-server lost connection and dropped me to a shell. Games are also working very fine. Do you have Mandrake 8 and XFree

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers

2001-03-22 Thread Digital Wokan
My preferred solution has been the following... Download the .src.rpm versions of NVIDIA_Kernel and NVIDIA_GLX from the ftp site. Bring up a terminal window (or do this completely outside X). su to root. rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 rpm -Uvh NV*.rpm vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

[newbie] Nvidia Drivers

2001-03-21 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for Linux that are posted on Nvidia's web site for my Gforce Annihilator Pro card. I downloaded the RPM and when I double click it, I get a list of files. One of these files is called install, if I double click that I get a

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers

2001-03-21 Thread Forrest White
boot. - Original Message - From: Joe Lore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for Linux that are posted on Nvidia's we

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers

2001-03-21 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
Open a terminal and type rpm -ivh package-name and substitute the real package name. If you want to know what files will be installed, do an rpm -qpf package-name. If there is a script that is called install that is installed by the rpm, then note its location so you can run it after the RPM

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