that error is not an nvidia error, i could be wrong but open a console and delete the following ~/.DCOP* yo should find that kde now starts, at least that what i have done when i had that error, i also emptied /tmp but i don't think that is necessary
bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 7:57 am, Sharrea wrote: > 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 -- "`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'" - The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies.
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