I tried your (Eric) instructions..and I suppose I got a little farther. Instead of getting the "no device found error" I get "could not load NV driver" or something like that (can't recall at the moment). Do I need to look into the instructions on the NVIDIA website a little more to try and get it working. Funny thing is on the mandrake website, they don't list the GeForce4 as being "compatible" with MDK9
Rodney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Hattemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Mandrake 9 & Geforce4 Ti4200 > Really, something must've gone wrong. I'm using mdk 9rc3, which is 99% > the same as mdk9. I installed the nvidia source rpms using the rpm > command, not urpmi. I then compiled them with little problems (at first > I forgot to download kernel-source and was all confused). Then when I > set it up and restarted (I think I posted all the instructions to the > list earlier this week), I had some problems, actually. KDE wouldn't > work at all, but gnome worked just fine. I started up gdm manually and > could only run gnome programs. I did that for a while, fixed my sound > driver, turned the computer off for the day, came back the next day, and > mysteriously, it worked beautifully and has worked ever since. Maybe > its because I'm working on mostly new hardware, but I am amazed at how > quick and responsive mdk9 with kde is. Maybe I've just been using > windows a lot lately, and expecting things to take a long time to > start. But yeah, GF cards should work with nvidia's drivers in mdk9, > and if they don't, maybe I or someone else on the list can help you out > with that. > > -Eric Hattemer > > On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 11:08, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > I don't think the downable nVidia source rpms work with the 2.4.19 > > kernel, yet. I installed the GLX and kernel source rpms on a system > > with GeForce4 MX420 and they screwed up my Mandrake 9.0 solid--I > > probably need to reinstall the whole thing. Ditto for Red Hat 8.0 Null. > > > > For the time being, the workaround seems to be selecting the "Integrated > > DDR GeForce2" as your video card. It works OK for Mandrake 9.0. > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau