Re: [Cooker] XFree86 4.0 with nvidia_drv 0.9-2, TNT

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

> as I said before, both Pixel & me managed to get the drivers installed 
on
> the 7.1-beta, on several tnt/tn2/geforce videocards..

> and we followed the nvidia faq, it just went smooth, recompiling real 
easy
> the kernel module, and installed the non-opensourced glx rpm.

> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau

I still haven't had a chance to try out some of the suggestions for 
getting my Xfree86 4.0 to work with the nVidia drivers (like adding 
that agp option to my xf86config file)--but you mention recompiling 
the nVidia kernel module... I did this when I tried getting these 
drivers to work, but I used the src.rpm to compile it. Might this be a 
reason X segfaulted when it tried to load?  Should I try compiling 
from the tar.gz instead?  What about the glx module?  You say you 
installed it from the rpm?

I'm just not sure what is the right way to do it, because there are so 
many options in the nVidia FAQ.

-p

Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Auto install missing step?

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

When I did a hard drive install using the boot floppy for hard disk 
installation, I got the same X errors described by Phil.  There were 
also a few problems with package installation:

- Error installing package procmail-3.13.1-6mdk - it turns out that it 
isn't even in the Mandrake/RPMS/ dir of the install files.  What is 
this package?  Do I need it?  I haven't had problems using my computer 
without it.

- Error installing package initscripts-4.97-33mdk - I needed to 
install this manually afterwards because Linux wouldn't boot without 
it--I had to go to a separate boot disk to do it, then chroot to where 
Linux was installed.  It wouldn't work when I tried installing it with 
rpm at first, and it was telling me to run msec or something.  So I 
did that (set the security level to 3) even though the installation 
process should have done this automatically I think, and then it 
installed fine.

- Error installing packages Mesa-3.1-14mdk and 
Mesa-common-devel-3.1-14mdk - I tried installing these manually 
afterwards and it's a bit weird.  The Mesa rpm needs Mesa-common to 
install, while the Mesa-common rpm likewise needs Mesa.  The same 
thing went for Mesa-devel and Mesa-common-devel.  I just forcefully 
installed them all.

But I have otherwise gotten almost everything else working with my 
installation.

-p

>> Original Message <<

On 5/9/00, 10:01:27 AM, "Alex Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
regarding Fwd: [Cooker] Auto install missing step?:


> just ftp'd last night from sunsite.uio.no and had excatly the same 
results.


> Original Message Follows
> From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] Auto install missing step?
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 04:52:59 -0700


> Hi,

>Just completed an ftp "automated" install from rpmfind.net and it 
didn't
> ask
> to make a boot disk, went directly from adding a user account to boot
> loader.

>Then when X tried to start after first reboot, complains of
> "failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> fatal server error
> could not open default font 'fixed;"

>But there were a couple problems with packages during the
> install, / is at 61% use.



> --
> Phil Lavigna
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/


> 

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[Cooker] XFree86 4.0 - segfaults

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

I tried to install XFree86 4.0 on Beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 using the 
RPMs from contrib.  I managed to forcefully uninstall all the XFree86 
3.3.6 RPMs that are installed by default, and install all the 
necessary XFree86 4.0 RPMs. But when I try to run X by typing startx, 
it almost loads, but then just before it's about to display the screen 
with the X cursor it segfaults back to the console, and the entire 
screen is messed; I can just barely make out what is being displayed 
in the console.  (Switching consoles doesn't fix the screen, I have to 
reboot for that.)

I have an nVidia RIVA TNT card, and I tried it both the old nVidia 
driver ("nv") and the new beta nVidia driver ("nvidia") and they both 
do the same thing.  I had XFree86 4.0 working without problems back in 
Mandrake 7.0 with both the "nv" and "nvidia" drivers, but it just 
doesn't work with 7.1 beta.  I am even using the same XF86Config file 
that I had in 7.0.  I had to uninstall XFree86 4.0 and put back 3.3.6 
so I could get into X.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

-p