Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 23:30, Lanman wrote: > Now, if only I could get the SVHS output working, I'd be all set. I have > a 42" plasmavision screen that's dying to become a computer monitor! > > Lanman If you read through the README's and other doco's, you should find that there are numerous confi

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:46, John Richard Smith wrote: > Say, Charles, is there some special website for > > 4349 > > I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or is this a > Mandrake version ? > > John It's the special Canadian version - comes with donuts and a case o

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:46:43 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or > is this a Mandrake version ? http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349 Charles -- God made the integers; all else

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT: Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
G_REEPER wrote: John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles Say, Charles, is there some special website for 4349 I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread Lanman
The extra sections to edit are based on whether or not you previously had an ATi video card or not. Entries in the file could include the Option line regarding "dri", or "DPMS". I didn't finish up with the rest of the README file, but I did catch a line that mentioned something about being able to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT: Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried that script as well. I was wondering what you had to change in XF86config-4? Was it just the normal change of the "nv" driver to "nvidia"? I already had the nvidia drivers that I installed from the NVIDIA_Kernel.src.rpm and used the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Lanman
Just throwing in my 2 cents worth here, but I really like the new NVidia driver package. Took all of 1 minute to install and configure. Who says you can write installation systems that work? Just had to make a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, ran the shell script to install the NVidia package, and e

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and > compile with my gcc compiler ? John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 07:37, John Richard Smith wrote: So if I'm to compile a purpose made nvidia driver is this going to be from tar balls or src rpms ? John By compiling from source, it's going to be FOR your system - for your everything. That's why I almost always

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Thankyou all. I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:- Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Richard, For me the rpms from textar r

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Thankyou all. > I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you > could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:- > > Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > >Richard, > > > >For me the rpms from textar runed perfe

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Richard, For me the rpms from textar runed perfectly (well, there are some NVIDIA bugs but it is a Nvidia problem). Start in mode 3 (text) login as root rpm -ivh Nvidia_kernel... rpm -ivh Nvidia-GLX Then, XFdrake; select your graphic card but in the propietary Nvidia point, not in the XFree8

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Derek Jennings
You should be able to uncomment the line for dbe extension. Also since the log shows it is failing when it is trying to detect the screen I am wondering if it is your screen config it does not like. You could try reducing the default colour depth as an experiment DefaultColorDepth 16 and yo

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 07:49, John Richard Smith wrote: > Well, I get the usual terminal, I login as root, and starx, and I get > the same warnings as abovementioned. > Anyway attatched is my current /etc/x11/xf86Config-4 > and var/log/XFree86.0.log > > see if you can spot something ? > thanks,

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 02:13, John Richard Smith wrote: Ok, so I installed, NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm from texstar website. Now I always got on boot-up, probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00) processing sda, scd0, scd1, adding devfsd d

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 02:13, John Richard Smith wrote: > Ok, so I installed, > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm > from texstar website. > > Now I always got on boot-up, > > probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00) > processing sda, scd0, scd1, > adding devfsd devi

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 5:13 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Ok, so I installed, > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm > from texstar website. > > Now I always got on boot-up, > > probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00) > processing sda, scd0, scd1, > adding devfsd dev

[newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Ok, so I installed, NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm from texstar website. Now I always got on boot-up, probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00) processing sda, scd0, scd1, adding devfsd device names, adding information this repeated about 10 times, but now I get in