I'll try to tell you what i did, but unfortunatly I am
away from my computer (and install notes) till Jan3!
And yes, I have 3d accell working- man quake 3 is
cool!
I had to mix and match instructions from soooo many
sources. I have the Viper V770 using the TNT2 -so I
presume the install will be the same for the other
drivers. You need the nvidia kernel 0.9-5 and glx
tarballs - dont get the rpms.
gunzip and untar them in a temp directory.
go to the Nvidia kernel directory and run:
make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include
Now you have to remove all of the traces of libGL:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions
mv libGLcore.a libGLcore.a.mesa
mv libglx.a libglx.a.mesa
cd /usr/X11R6/lib
mv libGL.so libGL.so.mesa
mv libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.mesa
mv libGL.so.1.0 libGL.so.1.0.mesa
mv libGL.so.1.2.0 libGL.so.1.2.0.mesa
I can't remember nor find the help files I used, but
search your computer for other libGL files.
next go to the Nvidia glx directory and run: make
Then goto /etc/X11/ and edit the XF86Config-4 file
(not the XF86Config file) and change the entry Driver
"nv" to Driver "nvidia", I think it is in the screen
section. Also add the line Load "glx" to the Module
section.
This last part seems to be a problem with M7.2 - you
have to
cd /etc/X11
rm X
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X
so that you are now using the right server.
Finally, if X locks up when you load it you need to
add
the line that removes AGP support in you config file -
I forgot what it is, but it should be listed on the
Nvidia help file.
After that, quake should run!
check out
http://members.home.net/linuxfrog/nvidia.html
Later!
--- Jamie Kerwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I
> haven't for the life of
> me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you
> have 3d acceleration
> working)
>
> Jamie
>
>
> >From: "John and Marcie Alexander"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x
> >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:47 -0500
> >
> >I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers
> working. When I ran X
> >-version, I got 3.something as my current version,
> even though I checked
> >the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is
> installed.
> >When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works
> fine now. Does this mean
> >I have both versions installed? If so, how can I
> remove the one I am not
> >using?
> >
>
>
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