On December 3, 2004 03:09, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 09:30, you wrote: ... > > > I have a page on installing the nvidia driver here > > > http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html > > > At the moment there is a bug in the Nvidia driver which requires you to > > > modify > > > it before it works with Mandrake 10.1 I think this bug is still > > > present. I > > > am sure someone will correct me if it is no longer around. > > > > > > Good luck > > > > > > derek ...
Derek, I just bought a slightly newer computer (PIII-533), and it happens to have a video card that NVidia claims is supported by their latest driver, a Riva TNT2 64, so I decided to try the "nvidia" driver. I have been using the "nv" driver, which works fine except for lack of 3D acceleration (tuxkart gives me about 1 frame every 3 seconds). I downloaded the latest driver from the NVidia site. This is 1.0-6629, whereas your page refers to 1.0-6111. But I followed your instructions anyway, in case the bug you mentioned was still there. But in usr/src/nv/nv.c, it appears that PM_SAVE_STATE has already been changed to PM_SUSPEND_MEM (I can find the latter string but not the former), so I guess the bug is fixed. It compiled and installed without any errors. Only a warning about the kernel being built with "rivafb" as a module, and that this module conflicts with -- Ron ron dot hunterduvar at shaw dot ca Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to have the same opinions are granted under the GNU GPL :^)
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