On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: > after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get > the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a > couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first > install. i got the glx and kernel rpms at that time and i believe i had > to reinstall the kernel drivers from tar.gz. my news readers still froze > after this (pan, mozilla, knode) but the rest seemed alright. recently, i > had to reinstall mdk 8.2. i got the latest drivers and my x server won't > start at all. checked all the documentation i could find, nvidia readme, > mandrake user nvidia section and i'm still at a loss, the config-4 file > was fine. > > after spending about 10 hours on this the easiest thing to do seems to be > to reinstall. but i don't want to go through that again unless i have a > pretty good idea about what the problem is, and a relatively straight > forward solution (this is a newbie speaking!) does 9.0 deal better with > the nvidia geforce2 mx/mx 400? i installed red hat 8.0 and the graphics > are rock solid so far. i would like to continue with mandrake because > i've spent some time with it and know it better but not at the expense of > a monitor that freezes regularly. i'd appreciate an honest answer, i know > how these distribution biases color peoples judgement. thanks
Firstly, I apologise for the long message. <rant> Well... today I have just spent from 7.15am to 6.45pm (minus 1/2 hour lunch break) trying to get the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 AND STILL NO GO! Didn't have a problem in 8.1. I have been trying to get the drivers working on and off for weeks! I ended up installing RH7.3 (dual boot) just so I can play Quake3 and UT2003. I've tried (and retried each many times), the club rpms, source rpms and the tarballs. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I'm using the enterprise kernel (1024 MB RAM). I did get the club enterprise rpm with urpmi. After installing the drivers (and editing XF86Config-4) I can start FluxBox, BlackBox, Enlightenment, etc but I can't start Gnome or KDE (I use KDE). I get the following error when trying to start KDE as root or user: <msg> There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. Tthe message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list: /home/sharrea/.DCOPserver_tbird.tux.nz__0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! </msg> Then the system takes forever to try to recover when I CTRL+ALT+Backspace but it usually ends up hanging and I use the ALT+SysRq combinations to end process, sync and reboot. Also the KDE apps like kedit, kmail, etc won't run in the other WMs but I can play tuxracer and UT2003. I checked (many times) that the libglx*, libGL.so* and libGLcore* files are installed correctly. I tried all the different options for "NvAGP" and added all sorts of things to /etc/modules.conf. One thing I noticed is that I only have nvidia0 and nvidiactl in the /dev dir (I don't get nvidia1, nvidia2 or nvidia3, etc). And another thing I noticed is that stopping the devfsd service on boot and editing /etc/lilo.conf to devfs=nomount (+ running /sbin/lilo afterwards) then rebooting doesn't stop devfsd from starting at boot! I've been searching all over the net for answers and trying suggestions given to others with a similar problem but like I said, no go. Anyway I've rebooted and shutdown about 30-40 times today and I've just about had enough so I think I'll just give up on the nvidia drivers for 9.0. Guess I'll just have to use RH : ( </rant> OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 without a hitch. Oh, I'm sooooo envious. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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