Hi all I've been trying to get the nvidia (closed source) drivers to work with 2.4.13-12mdkenterprise but I'm not having much luck.
First I tried the source rpms but the kernel source rpm wouldn't compile - Can't insmod NVdriver thingy even tho NVdriver was in the right place. Then I compiled the tarballs which gave no errors and installed correctly - or so it told me ; ) However, I have done this about 8 times now and I've even tried clean reinstalls of ML8.1 (twice) but no go. I have to mess around with XFdrake but testing the config always tells me that there was an error and to change some options. Eventually I choose my monitor (Philips 107S), NVIDIA-GeForce2 DDR (generic) graphic card, 800x600 16bits resolution, XFree 4.1.0 server, quit (without testing), edit XF86Config-4 and startx - everything works fine initially, even tuxracer, tuxkart and gears work fine. But if I log out of X or reboot I start getting segmentation faults on most things I try to do in konsole (bash). The strange thing is once I start getting segmentation faults like trying to open kmail from konsole I can still start kmail from clicking on the menu. Gears, tuxracer, tuxkart, etc won't run at all then. I've tried both nvidia's 1.0-1541.1 and 1.0-2313. I've also upgraded XFree86 but that didn't make any difference. I've tried the depmod -a and reboot thing too but that also made no difference. So basically I give up on trying to use 3D on this kernel. I have a separate installation of ML8.1 on 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise (sharing /boot, /home and /usr/local) on the same computer with NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.8-26mdk-enterprise-1.0-1541.2mdk.i586.rpm installed and working fine (no segfaults) - but supermount is broken in that kernel. The reason I am using enterprise kernels is for the large amount of ram. My graphics card is nvidia GeForce2 GTS PRO 64MB w TV-out. I apologise for the long message but I was just letting ya'll know what I've tried so far. I'm not worried if nobody can help me on this one but any advice would be greatly appreciated. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip)
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