Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics
I just posted another issue with nvidia and the solution is related to ACPI. This is the forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=553343#post553343 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia graphics
Hello I have just updated kernel to 2.6.8.1-24. I downloaded the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and installed per instructions. After downloading I tested with startx and everything worked fine. Upon reboot however, the driver would not load. Error message was: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Screens found, but none were usable configuration. I have changed nv to nvidia and have tried the load glx and also the open source load instructions: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so. This worked with the open source driver on kernel 2681-12. Any help would be appreciated in getting this working. I have checked for an os driver (Thac's rpms) but could not find one for the 2681-24 kernel. The new nvidia driver was supposed to remove the old driver but would there be anything else needing to be changed? Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics
john wrote: Hello I have just updated kernel to 2.6.8.1-24. I downloaded the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and installed per instructions. After downloading I tested with startx and everything worked fine. Upon reboot however, the driver would not load. Error message was: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Screens found, but none were usable configuration. I have changed nv to nvidia and have tried the load glx and also the open source load instructions: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so. This worked with the open source driver on kernel 2681-12. Any help would be appreciated in getting this working. I have checked for an os driver (Thac's rpms) but could not find one for the 2681-24 kernel. The new nvidia driver was supposed to remove the old driver but would there be anything else needing to be changed? Thanks John If this happens only on reboot add nvidia to /etc/modprobe.preload Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics
On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:17 pm, john wrote: Put nvidia in etc/modprobe.preload Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia problems w/kernel 2.6.8.1-24
Graham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RickSisler wrote: I haven't had any problems with the nvidia drivers since 9.1 when I started using Mandrake, but I need some advice here. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8.1-24mdk and rebuilt the nvidia driver with version 6111 from nvidia website. At first it didn't install because of the kernel source being /usr/src/linux symlink to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 3 20:22 linux - linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 3 20:21 linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk/ I recently ugraded to the 2.6.8.1-24mdk kernel and installed the nvidia 6629 driver. I used the nvidia installer (package name).run with the -e option and accepted the default settings until the source directory then changed it to /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk. The install went through with no problems and all users can run glxgears. Just my experience HTH. Graham Yeah, I think the linux- is throwing the nvidia-installer off, so it would seem you have to indicate the --kernel-source-path since it's not part of the uname -r that nvidia keeps refering to in the readme. I did an strace on glxgears for root and my user, which was turning up permissions on some stuff in the /proc dir ... hmmm .. 686 and mmx ... So didn't want to go there. And as it turns out, I forgot I installed the xorg 6.8.1 from the Mandrake DVD, but it was missing some fonts, atleast the ones I like. So I re-installed 10.10 and updated xorg and I'm gonna try the new kernel and 6629 drivers tonite with this new install. Which is running really well right now ... ;) Thx for replying.. -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia problems w/kernel 2.6.8.1-24
I haven't had any problems with the nvidia drivers since 9.1 when I started using Mandrake, but I need some advice here. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8.1-24mdk and rebuilt the nvidia driver with version 6111 from nvidia website. At first it didn't install because of the kernel source being /usr/src/linux symlink to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 3 20:22 linux - linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 3 20:21 linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk/ Is this correct for the kernel source location ? does anyone else have this ? I did get it to run successfully with the addition of the --kernel-source-path (or whatever the switch was) Problem is, it *is* installed successfully but only root can run glxgears and glxinfo ... my user ricks gets a segmentation fault. I also checked a new user, testme, and had same results. So I thought it was a permissions problem but I can't find it .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # glxgears 3975 frames in 5.0 seconds = 795.000 FPS 4840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 968.000 FPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ricks $ glxinfo Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED] ricks $ glxgears Segmentation fault the line from /etc/security/consile.perms: console 0666 dri 0666 root.video [EMAIL PROTECTED] ricks # ls -l /dev/nv* crw-rw-rw- 1 ricks video 195, 0 Feb 6 10:54 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 ricks video 195, 255 Feb 6 10:54 /dev/nvidiactl I changed the owner to root: crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 0 Feb 6 10:54 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 255 Feb 6 10:54 /dev/nvidiactl made no difference .. I'm still reading the nvidia readme but was wondering if anyone had any ideas .. TIA -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia problems w/kernel 2.6.8.1-24
RickSisler wrote: I haven't had any problems with the nvidia drivers since 9.1 when I started using Mandrake, but I need some advice here. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8.1-24mdk and rebuilt the nvidia driver with version 6111 from nvidia website. At first it didn't install because of the kernel source being /usr/src/linux symlink to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 3 20:22 linux - linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 3 20:21 linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk/ I recently ugraded to the 2.6.8.1-24mdk kernel and installed the nvidia 6629 driver. I used the nvidia installer (package name).run with the -e option and accepted the default settings until the source directory then changed it to /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk. The install went through with no problems and all users can run glxgears. Just my experience HTH. Graham -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 3/02/2005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia card
I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os drivers listed but didn't see any read me on what to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia card
On Saturday 05 February 2005 06:04 pm, john wrote: I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os drivers listed but didn't see any read me on what to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. john Make sure you have nvidia in the file etc/modprobe.preload It might be the only entry in the file. If it isn't there add it in lower case to the bottom of the file. The Nvidia driver needs to be preloaded. Here are the contents of my own modprobe.preload file: --- # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules nvidia via-agp -- You may not have the via-agp part, but you need the nvidia entry. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia card
On Saturday 05 February 2005 18:04, john wrote: I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os drivers listed but didn't see any read me on what to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add the following line: nvidia Now, simply issue the following command as root: modprobe nvidia then start X and the nvidia driver should be loaded and active. Or you can use the RPM's and that line should be added by them. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia card
Bryan Phinney wrote: Edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add the following line: nvidia Now, simply issue the following command as root: modprobe nvidia then start X and the nvidia driver should be loaded and active. Or you can use the RPM's and that line should be added by them. Hello Thanks for the responses. The modprobe had nvidia listed. I loaded the nvidia kernel rpm and made sure that the xorg.conf file had the driver listed as nvidia instead of nv. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so was also listed in place of the load glx fille. When I rebooted, the white nvidia screen came up and everything loaded ok. Again thanks for the help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Howdy. At start there are many different problems happening with NVidia drivers: a)Most common is lacking nvidia in /etc/modprobe.preload; b)Make sure that glx is loaded, look at /var/log/XFree86.n.log for error's description - propably broken symbolic link /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so not pointing to libglx.so.1.0.6111 or so; c)See what version of driver is returned by glxinfo, if not something like NVidia then usually problem lies in incorrect symbolic links libGL.so, libGL.so.1, libGLcore.so or libGLcore.so.1 at /usr/lib pointing to software driver instead of new nvidia's hardware accelerated. If so then you must find and delete old links and create new like this ln -s pathToNVidiaLibGL.so libGL.so etc. All of above happened in my case, hope you will be more lucky ;-) greets. Rafa Kamraj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( Dennis, you're using 10.x right? Did you remember to change mod.preload (I hope I got that right, I'm still using v9.2). Here, under 9.2, the latest Nvidia drivers (6629) work great. I get the warning about RIVA support being on in the kernel but other than that, it works fine. It even gave me a few more FPS in DOOM3, and better stability. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( Thanks everyone for the replies, it was the etc/modprobe.preload file lacking nvidia. All works well now. I have the 6629 drivers that Ron likes and will give ut2003 a try to see how it works. Oh, Splash screen pops up at boot so nvidia is functioning. Thanks again for the help everyone. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NVidia drivers
I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
Hi Dennis, mandrake 10 and 10.1 included NVidia driver in the CD, if you have a problem with the new driver from nvidia.com, you can used the driver from your Mandrake Distro. Teddy On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:52:39 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:52, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( Common problem this, did it myself first time :-) Make sure that you have the line nvidia in your /etc/modprobe.preload file. As for RPM's, the PowerPack comes with them, not sure if they're on the Club yet (you are a club member, aren't you?). John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce drivers for kernel 2.4 as well as the correct ones (for kernel 2.6 - I am running MDK 10.0 download edition). After removing these drivers and installing the correct version of the nforce drivers again X started correctly but the network card didn't work because the configuration file modprobe.conf needed altering. However after I did this, the problem with X started again, then I reinstalled the drivers in text-mode and now it seems to work. I'll reboot a few times to make sure though. David Can you please elaborate. Because I have the same things going on and don't know how to stop it. What do I look for? greetings Hans-CeesHans-cees Speel @ http://www.hanscees.com Trees @ http://www.bomengids.nl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
I changed to Alsa drivers, that restored the sound, your suggestion for KDE appears to have worked. Thanks for the advice. David Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager works and you see the Nvidia splash screen when X starts then there is nothing wrong with your graphics drivers. Try deleting your ~/.kde folder to solve your KDE problem (you will lose all your KDE configuration) If that does not fix it delete any file in your home starting with .ICE authority or .DCOPserver (new ones will be created on next login) As for your sound. In the 2.6 kernel the driver file is modprobe.conf not modules.conf which is the file for the 2.4 kernel. You might like to refer to the suggested configuration for your sound card at www.alsa-project.org derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David Trethewey wrote: I changed to Alsa drivers, that restored the sound, your suggestion for KDE appears to have worked. Thanks for the advice. David Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager works and you see the Nvidia splash screen when X starts then there is nothing wrong with your graphics drivers. Try deleting your ~/.kde folder to solve your KDE problem (you will lose all your KDE configuration) If that does not fix it delete any file in your home starting with .ICE authority or .DCOPserver (new ones will be created on next login) As for your sound. In the 2.6 kernel the driver file is modprobe.conf not modules.conf which is the file for the 2.4 kernel. You might like to refer to the suggested configuration for your sound card at www.alsa-project.org derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Your random fortune: The universe is all a spin-off of the Big Bang. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David, what error message does it give when you type in startx? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce drivers for kernel 2.4 as well as the correct ones (for kernel 2.6 - I am running MDK 10.0 download edition). After removing these drivers and installing the correct version of the nforce drivers again X started correctly but the network card didn't work because the configuration file modprobe.conf needed altering. However after I did this, the problem with X started again, then I reinstalled the drivers in text-mode and now it seems to work. I'll reboot a few times to make sure though. David Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David, what error message does it give when you type in startx? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Your random fortune: After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Trethewey Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? I had the same thing happening over and over again and someone on this list suggested I add nvidiawithout the quotes to /etc/modprobe.preload This fixed it for me. Regards, Dan Gordon --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.762 / Virus Database: 510 - Release Date: 9/13/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce drivers for kernel 2.4 as well as the correct ones (for kernel 2.6 - I am running MDK 10.0 download edition). After removing these drivers and installing the correct version of the nforce drivers again X started correctly but the network card didn't work because the configuration file modprobe.conf needed altering. However after I did this, the problem with X started again, then I reinstalled the drivers in text-mode and now it seems to work. I'll reboot a few times to make sure though. David Glad you got it going! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers
I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. -- Your random fortune: Torque is cheap. # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout gb Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Generic ModelName 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz HorizSync 31.5-64.3 VertRefresh 50-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName NVidia BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 Integrated (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS Option IgnoreEDID 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection alias autofs autofs4 probeall usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 forcedeth alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio # alias eth1 nvnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager works and you see the Nvidia splash screen when X starts then there is nothing wrong with your graphics drivers. Try deleting your ~/.kde folder to solve your KDE problem (you will lose all your KDE configuration) If that does not fix it delete any file in your home starting with .ICE authority or .DCOPserver (new ones will be created on next login) As for your sound. In the 2.6 kernel the driver file is modprobe.conf not modules.conf which is the file for the 2.4 kernel. You might like to refer to the suggested configuration for your sound card at www.alsa-project.org derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R If I get the posting remembered I believe you were talking about swapping from -15mdk and -7mdk and back again? Do you have both kernel-sources/vmlinuz in place and your boot loader configured to boot into either? The way I understood things, when loading nVidia drivers, you need to be within the uname of the kernel you wanted to install the driver to, so that suggests to me that you need to boot into the -15mdk and install nVidia again as per its 'Requirements'. Yeah. I mean having the driver installed twice? It's my understanding, also, that once you have booted into a particular kernel type/version, that upon exiting X, you are still using the initial booted too kernel? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can correct this if'n I'm wrong. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
-Original Message- From: SnapafunFrank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nv VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) EndSection From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. but .. the nvidia module doesn't seem to be loaded. lsmod shows nothing and OpenGL still doesn't work :( R If I get the posting remembered I believe you were talking about swapping from -15mdk and -7mdk and back again? Do you have both kernel-sources/vmlinuz in place and your boot loader configured to boot into either? The way I understood things, when loading nVidia drivers, you need to be within the uname of the kernel you wanted to install the driver to, so that suggests to me that you need to boot into the -15mdk and install nVidia again as per its 'Requirements'. Yeah. I mean having the driver installed twice? It's my understanding, also, that once you have booted into a particular kernel type/version, that upon exiting X, you are still using the initial booted too kernel? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can correct this if'n I'm wrong. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 == Also, don't forget to check the following in your XF86Config-4: (from the readme) In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore ...when I install the nvidia driver (as needed everytime a kernel upgrade happens) I usually just open a console and init 3. Then login as root, install the driver and make the XF86Config-4 changes... Any progress this far? When I tried it, it failed while trying to compile the nvidia kernel... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. Did you remember to edit the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 to change the driver in X from nv to nvidia? From within X, open up a konsole window and type in lsmod and then try to see if you have the nvidia module loaded. If you do not, then you have not properly installed the nvidia driver. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules
-Original Message- From: RAT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried to find the rivafb module but I have no clue how to uninstall module from kernel. = I had the same problem with the 15mdk kernel. Since I couldn't get it to work, and it didn't happen under the 13mdk kernel, I just reverted back to 13... I'd be interested if you find a fix! And yes, btw, I did make sure the nvidia line was in the XF86Config-4 file... ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia GF4 MX 440 wont work generic drivers in Mandrake
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 15:53, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: 1. Do I need an NVIDIA-kernel to get the generic drivers to work with this card? 2. Without a graphical interface how can I download and install the official nvidia drivers if that is what it is going to take? 3. Could the move have loused up the system in such a way that I would have to reinstall? I really doubt this, I mean its not like its a windoze partition. 1.) If you just change drives over - um, I think you're going to have issues with the new hardware; you going to have to boot into console mode and run XFdrake to reset the monitor settings and the video card settings... 2.) The official NVidia drivers ARE part of the MDK 10.0 OE installation. 3.) See number one. ONE of the things you can do is let the machine get all the way to the black screen - then hit CTRL-ALT-F2 - this SHOULD bring you to a console login...login as the root user, run XFdrake, and get all the settings right... YET another reason why I prefer a console login to a graphical login - easier to troubleshoot, easier to fix X problems, and not as much system resource overload by just having GDM (or similar) running in the background... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Academy: A modern school where football is taught. Institute: An archaic school where football is not taught. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia GF4 MX 440 wont work generic drivers in Mandrake
AMD xp 2400 machspeed v4mdpm Nvidia GF4 MX 440 Dell E551c Mandrake 10 official Hello all, I just built my first machine and am having mixed results with the Nvidia card. The box is up and running, working very well with windows XP pro and suSE 9.1 except no ethernet/internet with the suSE . Both of those OS's picked up the card off the bat. When Suse found the card on start up it prompted me to install the generic nvidia driver. This I did and no problems. And the card is fine under windoze. I have a problem though. My primary OS is mandrake 10 and I can not get the card to work at all. At first I had some X screen, although scrambled like eggs and the resolution was all messed. Now just a blank screen. When I built the new machine I transfered my drives over. No big deal right. I had to reinstall XP as it is a fragile system and would not boot up. No big deal it was expected. I only use it for video editing anyway, so no loss. Mandrake and suSE booted fine except Mandrake would not recognize the VIA chips set on the on-board graphics card although suSE did. That prompted me to get this low-end NV card. Still no love on the Drake. Could the move have disturbed a sturdy OS like Mandrake? I doubt it. Darn it! I really need to get Mandrake up and running. The suSE partition is only there for fooling around, in fact I only installed it a day or two before I built this custom box. So why won't Makdrake play nice with this NVIDIA card? I just want to get these lousy generic drivers to work and don't get why they wont. I thought perhaps it was a monitor/resolution problem. I played around with XFdrake and Xorgconfig, inserted the proper horizontal and vertical refresh rates for my crappy dell monitor. This seemingly only made things worse. 1. Do I need an NVIDIA-kernel to get the generic drivers to work with this card? 2. Without a graphical interface how can I download and install the official nvidia drivers if that is what it is going to take? 3. Could the move have loused up the system in such a way that I would have to reinstall? I really doubt this, I mean its not like its a windoze partition. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nVidia taints kernel
Hi. I think the nVidia driver install didn't go so well after all, although I'm not sure of what this message means. nvidia: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004 Any help appreciated. TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 Este computador está livre de vírus e da Micosoft ** Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia taints kernel
On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:52, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I think the nVidia driver install didn't go so well after all, although I'm not sure of what this message means. nvidia: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004 Any help appreciated. TIA kernel tainted 'just' means that you have inserted a non GPL module in the kernel. Since the running kernel isn't open source anymore only nvidia can debug problems. AFAIK kernel developers refuse to work on problems when the kernel is tainted, even if the problem seems unrelated to the proprietary module. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 02:04, Josenildo Marques napisa: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. first of all you should mention what you did and what messages showed up :) to install nvidia you should leave your X enviroment and install as a root. if it'll show that it cannot find the right kernel for your kernel type and can't compile it's own you'll have to install soruce packages of your kernel (it'll probably be something like kernel-source-2.6.3.7mdk), it should be on your distribution cd. simply install it from rpm - the easiest way and try installing nvidia again. after succesful nvidia kernel compilation (it won't take long) you'll have to change a couple of things in your XF86Conf. i believe what to change will be printed on the screen and available in readme or some other manual given by nvidia. -- Cezary Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0
On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 01:04, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA You do not say what is going wrong, but here are a few steps you could check out. 1/ Is your kernel-source the same revision as your kernel? 2/ The update mirrors now have kernel-2.6.3.13mdk and kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk You might as well use the latest. 3/ After the driver is installed did you check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and ensure that the line Driver nvidia is present in the Devices section, and that the line Load glx is not commented out in the Module section. In fact I always set this line to Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so so it explicitly points to the nvidia glx driver. 4/ In both your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf there should be a line alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia 5/ Finally in /etc/security/console.perms you should have the line dri=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0
Em Sáb, 2004-06-19 às 07:01, Derek Jennings escreveu: On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 01:04, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA You do not say what is going wrong, but here are a few steps you could check out. 1/ Is your kernel-source the same revision as your kernel? 2/ The update mirrors now have kernel-2.6.3.13mdk and kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk You might as well use the latest. 3/ After the driver is installed did you check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and ensure that the line Driver nvidia is present in the Devices section, and that the line Load glx is not commented out in the Module section. In fact I always set this line to Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so so it explicitly points to the nvidia glx driver. 4/ In both your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf there should be a line alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia 5/ Finally in /etc/security/console.perms you should have the line dri=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* derek Thanks a lot, Derek. It's done, no problems, only fun. The express path is a good idea and I used it. Thanks to all. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 Este computador está livre de vírus e da Micosoft ** A arte é o mais intenso tipo de individualismo que o mundo já conheceu. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0
Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 Este computador está livre de vírus e da Micosoft ** Somos o que repetidamente fazemos. A excelência, portanto, não é um feito, mas um hábito. Aristóteles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other settings to change? I used the mandrake drivers as it was easier for newbie me than installing driver from nvidia.com. Thanks in advance for help. John __ you will need the NVIDIA.com driver, just make sure you have your kernel source installed. It is not as hard as you think to install it. Walt Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. I am using md10 with kernel 2.6.3-7mdk. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. I am using md10 with kernel 2.6.3-7mdk. Thanks John __ Have you gone to the PLF easy urpmi site and set it up? (http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php) If so, you will be able to download the kernel source for your kernel through Mandrake control center. Once installed, hit ctrl-alt-f1, sign on, SU to root, type: init 3, then sh NVIDIA-Linux etc. At this point it should install the driver. type init 5 and then ctrl-alt-f7 which will bring you back to your window manager. Go to mandrake control center and under hardware, set up your graphics card. log out and restart X or just reboot and it should load the NVIDIA driver. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. I am using md10 with kernel 2.6.3-7mdk. Thanks John __ Have you gone to the PLF easy urpmi site and set it up? (http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php) If so, you will be able to download the kernel source for your kernel through Mandrake control center. Once installed, hit ctrl-alt-f1, sign on, SU to root, type: init 3, then sh NVIDIA-Linux etc. At this point it should install the driver. type init 5 and then ctrl-alt-f7 which will bring you back to your window manager. Go to mandrake control center and under hardware, set up your graphics card. log out and restart X or just reboot and it should load the NVIDIA driver. Walt Walt I had to remove the kernel source that I had installed from the cd's and reinstall. After that it was a very short time and everything was working great. It has been a learning experience for me and frustrating at times. Thanks for your help and thanks to Robin also. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:12, John wrote: Walt I had to remove the kernel source that I had installed from the cd's and reinstall. After that it was a very short time and everything was working great. It has been a learning experience for me and frustrating at times. Thanks for your help and thanks to Robin also. John If you really want a learning experience, try Gentoo LOL Walt (who still has mandrake on his main computer and always will ;-) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other settings to change? I used the mandrake drivers as it was easier for newbie me than installing driver from nvidia.com. Thanks in advance for help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other settings to change? I used the mandrake drivers as it was easier for newbie me than installing driver from nvidia.com. Thanks in advance for help. John __ you will need the NVIDIA.com driver, just make sure you have your kernel source installed. It is not as hard as you think to install it. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other settings to change? I used the mandrake drivers as it was easier for newbie me than installing driver from nvidia.com. Thanks in advance for help. The driver Mandrake provides is the vanilla XFree86 one, which does not support hardware acceleration - that's why everything is slow. You really need to get the nvidia driver. It's not that hard to install - see recent posts on this list. The amount of RAM on your machine doesn't affect video acceleration, since the card uses its onboard RAM. I'd still advise getting a bit more RAM eventually, though, as it's always a good thing. 512MB is plenty for anything short of advanced video work - I have 512MB and have hardly ever used swap space. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card
robin wrote: John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other settings to change? I used the mandrake drivers as it was easier for newbie me than installing driver from nvidia.com. Thanks in advance for help. The driver Mandrake provides is the vanilla XFree86 one, which does not support hardware acceleration - that's why everything is slow. You really need to get the nvidia driver. It's not that hard to install - see recent posts on this list. The amount of RAM on your machine doesn't affect video acceleration, since the card uses its onboard RAM. I'd still advise getting a bit more RAM eventually, though, as it's always a good thing. 512MB is plenty for anything short of advanced video work - I have 512MB and have hardly ever used swap space. Sir Robin Hello thanks for the quick responses. I have one question regarding the kernel sources. I installed the stripped down version earlier and tried the nvidia driver but it could not compile or could not find the necessary headers. Is the full source version necessary or do I have to specify a location somewhere? Thanks John _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10
I think I have found my problem with x not working. Here is a snip of my log file; (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.36.20.23.00 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): DFP-0, TV-0 (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Unknown NVIDIA (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed; (WW) NVIDIA(0): using first display (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 400 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 400 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 400 MHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Not probing EDIDs. (II) Loading sub module int10 It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? In the Device section where you specify the nvidia driver, add a line like this: #Option IgnoreDisplayDevices CRT, TV And tell it to ignore the devices you don't want to use. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10
Cool will try that tonight when I get home, thanks Brian. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Phinney Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? In the Device section where you specify the nvidia driver, add a line like this: #Option IgnoreDisplayDevices CRT, TV And tell it to ignore the devices you don't want to use. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I think I have found my problem with x not working. Here is a snip of my log file; (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.36.20.23.00 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): DFP-0, TV-0 (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Unknown NVIDIA (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed; (WW) NVIDIA(0): using first display (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 400 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 400 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device TV-0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 400 MHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Not probing EDIDs. (II) Loading sub module int10 It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? Thanks, Tony. Appendix R ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? In the Device section where you specify the nvidia driver, add a line like this: #Option IgnoreDisplayDevices CRT, TV And tell it to ignore the devices you don't want to use. Without the # ? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA
I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if I plug the card again. I found out that this problem is easily solved adding the line alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia to /etc/modprobe.conf, which for some reason is deleted if I boot without the card plugged.. However, it really surprises me that plugging/unplugging a pcmcia card somehow breaks the NVIDIA driver or modprobe.conf. I am using the Belkin card with the CD Windows XP driver under Linuxant driverloader. Running Mandrake 10 Official with kernel 2.6.3-9. I wish I could get rid of this annoyance. Any hint will be truly appreciated. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:49, Adolfo Bello wrote: I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if I plug the card again. I found out that this problem is easily solved adding the line alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia to /etc/modprobe.conf, which for some reason is deleted if I boot without the card plugged.. However, it really surprises me that plugging/unplugging a pcmcia card somehow breaks the NVIDIA driver or modprobe.conf. I am using the Belkin card with the CD Windows XP driver under Linuxant driverloader. Running Mandrake 10 Official with kernel 2.6.3-9. I wish I could get rid of this annoyance. Any hint will be truly appreciated. Adolfo Add the line to /etc/modules.conf Mandrake 10.0 is designed to support both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. In order to facilitate this there is a utility called generate-modprobe.conf which will create a modprobe.conf file from your modules.conf file. It seems harddrake calls this utility when it detects a change in your hardware and so is erasing your edits. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 20:49, Derek Jennings wrote: Add the line to /etc/modules.conf Mandrake 10.0 is designed to support both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. In order to facilitate this there is a utility called generate-modprobe.conf which will create a modprobe.conf file from your modules.conf file. It seems harddrake calls this utility when it detects a change in your hardware and so is erasing your edits. derek Derek, it just worked However, it still surprises me that plugging/unplugging the PCMCIA ethernet card causes changes in the nvidia setting in modprobe.conf. Thanks a lot. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:46, David B. Williams wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 04:11 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW You need to make sure you have the same kernel source rpm installed as the kernel you are running when you try to install. Due to a bug in the installer, this should be the ONLY source rpm you have installed. After that, the installer should work (did for me). Alternatively, if you're a club member, there are RPM's available in the Club Commercial download section, which also work for me. John. Are you running kernel 2.6? LX I managed to get it working on 2.6, but NOT when 2 sources were installed. (The installer gets confused then and goes for the 2.4, realises somethings gone wrong, and falls over.) Alex Interesting. Everyone ought to file this for future reference. Thanks for the info on 2.6. LX And it worked. In my trying to get the installer to work yesterday, I managed to get a total of four sets of sources installed and screwed something else up. So since I just installed 10.0 official a week ago, I did it again but did not install LSB and only 2.6.3-7. Once I installed the sources for it, the installer did its job just fine and I have the proper nvidia driver loading. Course the next problem is - not everything appears to work. However, my hi-tech method of testing is to use xscreensaver. DBW Congratulations, David! Hope you are enjoying the speed. :) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW You need to make sure you have the same kernel source rpm installed as the kernel you are running when you try to install. Due to a bug in the installer, this should be the ONLY source rpm you have installed. After that, the installer should work (did for me). Alternatively, if you're a club member, there are RPM's available in the Club Commercial download section, which also work for me. John. Are you running kernel 2.6? LX I managed to get it working on 2.6, but NOT when 2 sources were installed. (The installer gets confused then and goes for the 2.4, realises somethings gone wrong, and falls over.) Alex
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW You need to make sure you have the same kernel source rpm installed as the kernel you are running when you try to install. Due to a bug in the installer, this should be the ONLY source rpm you have installed. After that, the installer should work (did for me). Alternatively, if you're a club member, there are RPM's available in the Club Commercial download section, which also work for me. John. Are you running kernel 2.6? LX I managed to get it working on 2.6, but NOT when 2 sources were installed. (The installer gets confused then and goes for the 2.4, realises somethings gone wrong, and falls over.) Alex Interesting. Everyone ought to file this for future reference. Thanks for the info on 2.6. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Mate I had a problem trying to get the nvidia drivers 5336 with 2.6.3.4mdk kernel so I upgraded to 2.6.3.8mdk. When I installed the drivers they were complied automatically and it worked find. Regards Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
Kevin Ferguson wrote: David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Mate I had a problem trying to get the nvidia drivers 5336 with 2.6.3.4mdk kernel so I upgraded to 2.6.3.8mdk. When I installed the drivers they were complied automatically and it worked find. Regards Kevin Also, lets not forget what kernel is installed if the LSB (Linux standard base) box is ticked on install, (2.4.something, AND 2.6.something, only 2.4 is used) and what sources are included on the install CD's (2.6.whatever ONLY) -Thats correct for mandrake 10.0 CE anyway. The only way I could get it working was by obliterating all kernels and their sources apart from the 2.6 kernel, as that was the only one with sources. Bye-bye LSB compatibility! ;-) Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? __ The older Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site will recompile to fit the current kernel; the installer will do all the work for you. All you have to do is feed it yesses or no's. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On May 2, 2004, at 21:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? Lets see if I can help. First of all, at least for 10.0 official there are NVIDIA driver RPMs for kernel 2.6.3-7. You will need to install NVIDIA_kernel-2.6.3.7md and NVIDIA_GLX. If you don't have 10.0 official or you prefer to build and install yourself, here is what I had to do to build and run the Nvidia module under kernel 2.6.3-9: 1. Make sure you have the kernel sources installed. 2. Make sure you have a build link in the appropriate modules directory pointing to your kernel source: First try: ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r` If you see a link called build pointing to the kernel source, go to step 3. Otherwise create the link: ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build 3. Copy the configuration of the currently running kernel to /usr/src/linux: Backup the current .config file: cp /usr/src/linux/.config /usr/src/linux/config.bak Then copy the running kernel's config file: cp /boot/config /usr/src/linux/.config 4. Try to build the Nvidia modules. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed back to nv. What I am trying to do is get the 3D stuff working so that I can use some of the options on xscreensaver as well as a solitare game that I bought (and had working under 9.1). I have Mesa loaded and installed. I guess that I don't have some config file set correctly, but am at a loss as what to look for next. DBW You need to get the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website and run the installer. When you do it will tell you if it has an interface ready and available for the kernel. If it doesn't, then it will tell you that as well, and at that point it will ask you about recompiling. Run thru the questions and you should have some new Nvidia drivers installed. After that you naturally need to follow the directions listed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-5328 Or whatever other /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_* directory was created. These directions will tell you what you need to do to the XF86Config-4 file. If you get it working ok a report back telling about success would be nice. LX Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal sources loaded and tried the installer and then I get an error from the installer that it can't determine the NVIDIA Kernal level. Now I am running 2.6.3-7 and the NVIDIA files are for 2.4 I expected to recompile for the 2.6 but it don't seem to get very far. Where do I go from here? DBW Good question. My first thought is that you need to make absolutely sure that the installed kernel source does indeed match your installed kernel. Check /boot against /usr/src. Next thing is not good news.I have never experimented with the 2.6 version kernel yet. I stayed with the latest 2.4 version for now because I was scared of possible compatibility problems. 2.6 is still really really new. One thing you want to be careful of is to do your research BEFORE you decide to move up. If Nvidia doesn't have a kernel for 2.6 then you don't want to go there. The video drivers for a working workstation always take priority over installing the latest wiz-bang kernel; you base your upgrade decisions on the available video card driver and the compatible kernel, not the kernel and then a video driver match. When you move up too fast you always shoot yourself in the leg. Unless you have a test machine set aside specifically for experimentation. Or unless you have two large hard drives and some hard drive trays for quick change and hard drive swap. One drive could be used for developmental testing, the other drive could be used as your email/workstation/gaming drive, and the hard drive tray would allow you a painless swap, and you could test things new until they worked to your satisfaction on the new drive. Now that you've suffered the speech, I'll give you the short answer. If you cannot make 2.6 work with the kernel and the Nvidia site says nothing about 2.6 support, you need to drop back to the latest 2.4 kernel. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia drivers
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Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Short answer: Yes. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward curve. There are flat periods, upward spurts, and even reversals. -Technology of the Imperium, 532nd Edition Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia GeForce 6800 launched
Press release from Nvidia corporate: __ NVIDIA Launches GeForce 6800! Developers, press, and industry luminaries can only begin to describe the awesome power of NVIDIAs revolutionary new GeForce 6800 GPU: The GeForce 6800 is my platform of choice... - John Carmack, President and Technical Director, id Software What NVIDIA has achieved with the GeForce 6800 Ultra makes even experienced graphics cards editors shake their head in amazement and wonder. - Toms Hardware __ John Carmack is a pretty damn strong endorsement. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia release linux only app???
Have you guys seen this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/19/nvidia_quadro_4000/ quote Nvidia is offering both Windows and Linux drivers for the part. However, the company's 3D final-film rendering software, Gelato, also introduced today, only runs on the open source OS - largely because it can make use of a 64-bit processor. It also supports PCI Express and multi-threading, Nvidia said. The $2750 application can be linked to existing film production systems, including Maya and Python. It provides accelerated scanline and ray-traced rendering, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and support for the full range of geometric primitives (NURBS, bicubic and bilinear patches, polygon meshes, subdivision surfaces, points, curves and procedural geometry) for true film-quality images. ® /quote This might go a long way to really really establising linux as THE high end video processing platform of choice... Thats got to be a good thing.. (I realise that Linux already has a pretty good standing in the high end video market, but this has got to help.) -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi, everyone! I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for NVIDIA FX5200 one. I would like to ask you a question: does the NVIDIA card works well with the Mandrake 9.2? Did you have any problems? I am looking forward to reading your helpful responses. TIA Wojciech Podgrni This would be better phrased as: I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for crappy NVIDIA FX5200 one. I doubt there is any differnce in performance between the two, in fact I'd probably put the 9200 ahead if I were to take a guess.. If you must get a geforce, get at least the 5600 as the 5200 is a piece of junk. Having said that, my Dell 5150 has an FX5200 card inbuilt and it works fine in 9.2 with the nvidia driver. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
Uytkownik frankieh napisa: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi, everyone! I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for NVIDIA FX5200 one. I would like to ask you a question: does the NVIDIA card works well with the Mandrake 9.2? Did you have any problems? I am looking forward to reading your helpful responses. TIA Wojciech Podgrni This would be better phrased as: I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for crappy NVIDIA FX5200 one. I doubt there is any differnce in performance between the two, in fact I'd probably put the 9200 ahead if I were to take a guess.. If you must get a geforce, get at least the 5600 as the 5200 is a piece of junk. Having said that, my Dell 5150 has an FX5200 card inbuilt and it works fine in 9.2 with the nvidia driver. My ATI rant No, it IS crappy because it is working and badly with some Windows games (GeForce 256 DDR didn't have those problems), and getting proprietary drivers working well (with acceleration) is a matter of pure luck (can as well crash the entire system). I NEVER expected to have a system crash under professionally (now I know the word needs to be put in marks here) made drivers - and during a *normal* usage of system. If anybody wants to have a system crash, do these steps: - install ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card and its proprietary drivers in a system with KDE3.2 - choose Start another session - in another session, try to go back to the first one (with Ctrl+Alt+F7)... ...and the system should hopelessly crash. And no, my former graphic card (GeForce 256 DDR), didn't have ANY of these problems (with ANY of its drivers - OS or proprietary). End of my ATI rant I hope this clears my position on the crap called ATI Radeon 9200... :( Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:19:05 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ATI rant No, it IS crappy because it is working and badly with some Windows games (GeForce 256 DDR didn't have those problems), and getting proprietary drivers working well (with acceleration) is a matter of pure luck (can as well crash the entire system). I NEVER expected to have a system crash under professionally (now I know the word needs to be put in marks here) made drivers - and during a *normal* usage of system. If anybody wants to have a system crash, do these steps: - install ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card and its proprietary drivers in a system with KDE3.2 - choose Start another session - in another session, try to go back to the first one (with Ctrl+Alt+F7)... ...and the system should hopelessly crash. And no, my former graphic card (GeForce 256 DDR), didn't have ANY of these problems (with ANY of its drivers - OS or proprietary). End of my ATI rant I hope this clears my position on the crap called ATI Radeon 9200... :( Wojciech Podgórni What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John -- Mon Mar 8 12:55:55 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Better dead than mellow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA FX5600 or 5700 and Mandrake 9.2 was: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
Uytkownik John Drouhard napisa: What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John I know... But as the owner of Commodore64 I don't call something crap when it's outdated or not performing too well - only if it's falling apart (like in the case of ATI Radeon 9200, unfortunately...). But thank you for response. BTW, does anybody use GeForceFX 5600 or 5700. Do you have any problems (especially with 2.6 kernel)? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5600 or 5700 and Mandrake 9.2 was: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:13:06 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U__ytkownik John Drouhard napisa__: What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John I know... But as the owner of Commodore64 I don't call something crap when it's outdated or not performing too well - only if it's falling apart (like in the case of ATI Radeon 9200, unfortunately...). But thank you for response. BTW, does anybody use GeForceFX 5600 or 5700. Do you have any problems (especially with 2.6 kernel)? I use a GeForceFX 5700 Ultra with the 2.6 kernel and I am extremely happy with it. I would highly recommend one if you like to play games that are graphic intensive. I get about 5600 fps with glxgears. I'm downloading Mandrake 10 right now (uses 15% of CPU), and get about 4400 fps. John -- Mon Mar 8 13:28:20 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 He who laughs last -- missed the punch line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA and Sound on 10rc1
I just installed 10rc1 from scratch and updated this morning with cooker sources. Using kernel 2.6.3. Everything works beautifully but I have a problem between NVIDIA and sound, no matter whether I use the open or close source driver. When KDE starts it gives a couple of message boxes. The first one says: During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify. Do you want to try again or disable aRts sound output? The second one: The application KNotify (knotify)crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). After restarting X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sound is back working fine. Is there any place that I can take a look at? No funny messages out of dmesg. Everything OK. Toshiba laptop with ACPI turned on working real nice out of the box for the first time. I love this version!! Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nVidia GeForce4 MX440 drivers
Just got a new machine and want to install the new Mandrake 10 Beta 2. I have an nVidia GeForce4 MX440 card on this machine (Pentium 4) and was wondering what is the best way to get it working. Should I be looking at the nVidia site for drivers or use the Open Source alternatives? In either case, what specific driver? I don't know that I'll be using the machine much for gaming (and therefore 3D support not such a big deal). Thanks for your advice and experience with these drivers. -Trey -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia GeForce4 MX440 drivers
Trey Sizemore wrote: Just got a new machine and want to install the new Mandrake 10 Beta 2. I have an nVidia GeForce4 MX440 card on this machine (Pentium 4) and was wondering what is the best way to get it working. Should I be looking at the nVidia site for drivers or use the Open Source alternatives? In either case, what specific driver? I don't know that I'll be using the machine much for gaming (and therefore 3D support not such a big deal). Thanks for your advice and experience with these drivers. I have such a graphics card and you shouldn't HAVE to do anything. It lets me watch dvds and watch video of all sorts, though I havent tried any 3d games. It just uses some generic driver, which is ok. I have problems with mplayer crashing the system, but I think that is related to a crap processor. It still crashes, but not nearly so often with transcode and xine, so it is mainly mplayer. They (mplayer) say bad things about nvidia though, which could be some of the problem. Cheers Anton -=-=- ...On Krat's main screen appeared the holo image of a man, and several dolphins. From the man's shape, Krat could tell it was a female, probably their leader. ...stupid creatures unworthy of the name `sophonts.' Foolish, pre-sentient upspring of errant masters. We slip away from all your armed might, laughing at your clumsiness! We slip away as we always will, you pathetic creatures. And now that we have a real head start, you'll never catch us! What better proof that the Progenitors favor not you, but us! What better proof... The taunt went on. Krat listened, enraged, yet at the same time savoring the artistry of it. These men are better than I'd thought. Their insults are wordy and overblown, but they have talent. They deserve honorable, slow deaths. - David Brin, Startide Rising Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA sound problem
Hi
Y'all may have beat this one into submission in the past ... but I just
got this new machine.
ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard with integrated NVIDIA nforce2 IGP and MCP
chipsets.
Nothing seemed to work after the initial MDK 9.2 install. I disabled
the onboard LAN adapter in BIOS and temporarily installed an old 3COM
NIC. On the reboot, harddrake picked that up and configured it. At
least I got a net connection.
With urpmi I downloaded and installed the following:
NVIDIA_GLX_4496-2.2.92mdk
NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-4496-2.2.92
NVIDIA_nforce-2.4.22.21mdk-1.0-02663
Now, the onboard LAN adapter is working nicely (removed the 3COM NIC).
I get the NVIDIA splash screen which indicates that the graphics adapter
is running with drivers it likes best (I hope).
With MCC, I tried to add the nvaudio drivers to the soundcard.
Sound functions still seem to be screwed up. On boot up, I get this
message:
modprobe: can't locate module nvaudio
sound: loading sound module (nvaudio) failed.
My original (before all the downloads, etc) '/etc/modules.conf' file
looked like this:
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 3c59x
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
With the above configuration, I DID get the KDE start-up rumble
sound. However, my microphone and line-in inputs didn't work.
My '/etc/modules.conf' now looks like this:
alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 nvnet
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
KDE not longer plays it start-up rumble ('can't find /dev/dsp'). The
inputs still don't work.
How do I get system to find the correct nvaudio drivers?
Thanks for any suggestions/pointers
Harv / AI9NL
Washburn, WI
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[newbie] nvidia dir?
I'm trying to upgrade my nvidia display driver (http://www.linuxgames.com/),
and am misunderstanding the supposed directories: most instructions include
the following command
$ cd NVIDIA_kernel
but on my comp that directory doesn't exist. What am I missing? If I have
to create a new folder I would like your suggestions on where to put it, but
I would think it's in there somewhere already if my vcard already works. If
it helps, I've got my vcard settings from hardrake listed below.
Thanks,
-stv
Vendor: \x{200E}NVidia
Bus: \x{200E}PCI
Bus identification: \x{200E}10de:281
Location on the bus: \x{200E}1:0:0
Description: \x{200E}GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
Module: \x{200E}Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)
Media class: \x{200E}DISPLAY_VGA
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Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
Lance Benton wrote: I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133 Radeon 9700 ASUS DVD-E616 (16x/48x) LiteOn LTR-48126S (48x24x48) What is the best way to install the nvidia nforce (motherboard) drivers? Their site has several suggestions, has anyone had success with any of them? I downloaded the files from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.mdk91up_2.4.21_0.13.athlon.rpm http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm for the rpm, tar ball, and source code versions respectively. Since the rpm may not be compatible with M9.2 , have you checked , did you try installing it, it will throw up error messages if it is not installable, one would then be left with either of the two other options. I have tried the tar file, but it was full of errors on the make portion. Well , this is where it starts to get more difficult but for a start noone can help you untill you post the error messages. If you compile the tar ball with cd directory sources, ./configure 2 /pathtoerrorlogfile1 make 2. /pathtoerrorlogfile2 make install the error messages get piped to the error log files, you can then post them here. That helps people advise you. Sometimes they vary the commands a bit, so look in readme file for instuctions Rob Blomquist has asked you, I am not sure that you need to install the drivers from NVidia, as they are precompiled as kernel modules for you to use, so it may not be necessary anyway, what about that, could that be so, I know nothing about nfource mobo's myself never ever seen or heard of them. But what is the nature of the problem you have with your mobo, are you not getting to desktop at all, does the boot script halt, what makes you feel that you need the above packages anyway. Lastly , try to stay calm, we all feel frustrated , I am currently frustrated over an issue of font mapping in kde=ghostscript and feeling decidedly out of my depth, so your not alone by any means. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and headers. On mandrake that would be the kernel-source.rpm for your specific version (1.4.22-10 IIRC). Do uname -r if you're not certain. This rpm is AFAIK not on the DE iso's nor is it installed by default, you'll have to find it on the net or at mandrake-club. If you've got your sources set up type (as su/root): urpmi kernel-source and you'll be offered the choice. Once installed you'll be able to build the srpm. Good luck, HarM I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he installs the nvnet drivers. I'm not certain whether that driver is included in the Power Pack or other boxed sets since I've had no need for it but that would be the first avenue I explored. The few N-Force board based systems I've assembled for people have had no trouble since I always download and burn any drivers or patches that could possibly be required to a CD-RW before I start. Actually my 18 year old son has more experience with NForce based systems than I, his friends have discovered that he knows how to assemble them and load GNU/Linux operating systems. Not bad for a first year apprentice auto mechanic. Don't ever tell him I said any of that. g I have a sneaking suspicion that Tex included an NVidia configured kernel and the required drivers on the preview 4 version of pclinuxos. Maybe the OP should investigate that possibility? I don't have access to a system to test whether the livecd has the drivers, maybe next week. I hope Lance finds a way out of his dilemma. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 12:34:08 up 6 days, 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.03 Next, upon a stool, we've a sight to make you drool. Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool. -- ELP, Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5MKnZqvqlrLPr5YRAo85AJ90yZkZ9Ourwbg/NzJ70SS7DfUWXQCgo7dd Y3phLit16LQUdwsjjLULSYw= =aobn -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and headers. On mandrake that would be the kernel-source.rpm for your specific version (1.4.22-10 IIRC). Do uname -r if you're not certain. This rpm is AFAIK not on the DE iso's nor is it installed by default, you'll have to find it on the net or at mandrake-club. If you've got your sources set up type (as su/root): urpmi kernel-source and you'll be offered the choice. Once installed you'll be able to build the srpm. Good luck, HarM I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he installs the nvnet drivers. I'm not certain whether that driver is included in the Power Pack or other boxed sets since I've had no need for it but that would be the first avenue I explored. The few N-Force board based systems I've assembled for people have had no trouble since I always download and burn any drivers or patches that could possibly be required to a CD-RW before I start. Actually my 18 year old son has more experience with NForce based systems than I, his friends have discovered that he knows how to assemble them and load GNU/Linux operating systems. Not bad for a first year apprentice auto mechanic. Don't ever tell him I said any of that. g I have a sneaking suspicion that Tex included an NVidia configured kernel and the required drivers on the preview 4 version of pclinuxos. Maybe the OP should investigate that possibility? I don't have access to a system to test whether the livecd has the drivers, maybe next week. I hope Lance finds a way out of his dilemma. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 12:34:08 up 6 days, 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.03 Next, upon a stool, we've a sight to make you drool. Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool. -- ELP, Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5MKnZqvqlrLPr5YRAo85AJ90yZkZ9Ourwbg/NzJ70SS7DfUWXQCgo7dd Y3phLit16LQUdwsjjLULSYw= =aobn -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i think they are redhat rpm though. doesnt hurt to look -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i think they are redhat rpm though. doesnt hurt to look Say *what?* http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0269.html There's a SuSe AMD64 rpm, there are also tar.gz files, in addition to multiple flavours of IA32 download files. You are correct, but I never said there were no drivers, I said Lance didn't have them installed. IA32 applies to the Athlon MP and XP as well, since they are Intel Compatibles. I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. In any event I believe you may have misinterpreted what I posted; or I did on yours, since I was only saying the original poster wasn't able to connect to the Internet to download or upgrade anything while in Mandrake. No nvnet drivers installed. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them. -- James Thurber -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5MwcZqvqlrLPr5YRAujcAKCs6BEbblKd1v2e7tDJIePVhvv/rgCgg4NA pvMSpKn777HIy0f6E0FTTR4= =Lvm8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:24, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i think they are redhat rpm though. doesnt hurt to look Say *what?* LOL thats cool they just came out!!Version: 1.0-0269 Release Date: December 16, 2003 im gonna try them... when i installed them there was only 32 bit version available.. they had 64bit graphics available tho.. ill let u know if they work out THX __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. yes they cost alot... i paid i think 350 for the opteron 1.6 and 250 for the asus sk8n board... and 375 total for a koolance case.. so yeah its a lil bit expensive but i think its worth the money ... the control panel on my MDK 9.2 32 bit takes 2 times longer to load then my 64 bit box.. the boot process it like 4 times faster. there is ono pause at detecting ide drives .. but ithinkthats the change in kernels also i wasnt saying u were wrong i was just saying what i thought about his post i didint see what u had wrote yet :) later jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. yes they cost alot... i paid i think 350 for the opteron 1.6 and 250 for the asus sk8n board... and 375 total for a koolance case.. so yeah its a lil bit expensive but i think its worth the money ... the control panel on my MDK 9.2 32 bit takes 2 times longer to load then my 64 bit box.. the boot process it like 4 times faster. there is ono pause at detecting ide drives .. but ithinkthats the change in kernels also i wasnt saying u were wrong i was just saying what i thought about his post i didint see what u had wrote yet :) later jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N My problems installing the nvidia linux drivers probably have everything to do with me not knowing anything about linux. The only issue I had was that my NIC was recognized, but wouldn't show up as a configurable adapter. Someone mentioned that their board worked fine on a fresh install, but that was an Asus board, commonly know as the board to get. My Leadtek is commonly referred to as you got what why? I was able to get my extra NIC online w/o problems and everything is working as expected. I'm completely happy -- and completely lost. I've worked with computers for a long time and I never really forced myself into the linux world. I work in a 100% microsoft IT shop so I don't really have any incentive to learn linux, other than I'm completely bored with microsoft and I'm looking for a new challenge. Besides, I'm a web administrator and what web-related person could consider themself that w/o understanding linux! Again, I thank you all for your patience with me and hopefully I'll be able to become a productive member of this linux community. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:57, Lance Benton wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. yes they cost alot... i paid i think 350 for the opteron 1.6 and 250 for the asus sk8n board... and 375 total for a koolance case.. so yeah its a lil bit expensive but i think its worth the money ... the control panel on my MDK 9.2 32 bit takes 2 times longer to load then my 64 bit box.. the boot process it like 4 times faster. there is ono pause at detecting ide drives .. but ithinkthats the change in kernels also i wasnt saying u were wrong i was just saying what i thought about his post i didint see what u had wrote yet :) later jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N My problems installing the nvidia linux drivers probably have everything to do with me not knowing anything about linux. The only issue I had was that my NIC was recognized, but wouldn't show up as a configurable adapter. Someone mentioned that their board worked fine on a fresh install, but that was an Asus board, commonly know as the board to get. My Leadtek is commonly referred to as you got what why? I was able to get my extra NIC online w/o problems and everything is working as expected. I'm completely happy -- and completely lost. I've worked with computers for a long time and I never really forced myself into the linux world. I work in a 100% microsoft IT shop so I don't really have any incentive to learn linux, other than I'm completely bored with microsoft and I'm looking for a new challenge. Besides, I'm a web administrator and what web-related person could consider themself that w/o understanding linux! Again, I thank you all for your patience with me and hopefully I'll be able to become a productive member of this linux community. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com i like my asus mobo very much... i fried it already once overclocking it a lil much. some reason it didnt fry the opteron or vid card lol... im still new at linux too but i have ben using it for like 5 yrs now but i stopped for a year in 2000... i cant stand microsoft but i go to school to be a M$ programmer... i think i am wasting my time.. im taking unix classes this semester to better my command line and learn more about the directories and the who what where how and whys of the parts of the linux os.. k im done rambling.. im gonna see if i can get the new 64bit nforce3 drivers installed on my other box later... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Saturday 20 December 2003 22:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he installs the nvnet drivers. Actually my point was that; To get proper answers you need to ask the proper questions. I've no experience with nforce boards either but I did notice the build errors which pointed to the kernel-source not being there. I just went through the same thing with Veclinux. Why the sources aren't on a mini distrib I can understand, why they're not on Mandrake by default is still beyond me. We go over and over this same mess again and again, when it comes to Nvidia (or other proprietary) drivers. One can't expect linux-newbs to know that they have to install the kernel-source but they do get tar.gz packages and srpm's to install from all over the web or magazines. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133 Radeon 9700 ASUS DVD-E616 (16x/48x) LiteOn LTR-48126S (48x24x48) What is the best way to install the nvidia nforce (motherboard) drivers? Their site has several suggestions, has anyone had success with any of them? I downloaded the files from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html (I have tried the tar file, but it was full of errors on the make portion. I believe the entire thing errored out because of a change in what linux wants when from a make.) Nvidia doesn't have a Mandrake 9.2 download version, so that means I have to rebuild the source rpm, right? If so, what do I need to install to do that? Is everything included on the CD's and I just have to find it or are there external files needed? Luckily I have my laptop, so I can get files as needed (and email you all). Thanks in advance for any assistance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
On Saturday 20 December 2003 01:33, Lance Benton wrote: I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133 Radeon 9700 ASUS DVD-E616 (16x/48x) LiteOn LTR-48126S (48x24x48) What is the best way to install the nvidia nforce (motherboard) drivers? Their site has several suggestions, has anyone had success with any of them? I downloaded the files from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html (I have tried the tar file, but it was full of errors on the make portion. I believe the entire thing errored out because of a change in what linux wants when from a make.) Nvidia doesn't have a Mandrake 9.2 download version, so that means I have to rebuild the source rpm, right? If so, what do I need to install to do that? Is everything included on the CD's and I just have to find it or are there external files needed? Luckily I have my laptop, so I can get files as needed (and email you all). Thanks in advance for any assistance. One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and headers. On mandrake that would be the kernel-source.rpm for your specific version (1.4.22-10 IIRC). Do uname -r if you're not certain. This rpm is AFAIK not on the DE iso's nor is it installed by default, you'll have to find it on the net or at mandrake-club. If you've got your sources set up type (as su/root): urpmi kernel-source and you'll be offered the choice. Once installed you'll be able to build the srpm. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
From: Lance Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/19 Fri PM 06:33:37 CST To: Mandrake Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install? I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133 Radeon 9700 ASUS DVD-E616 (16x/48x) LiteOn LTR-48126S (48x24x48) What is the best way to install the nvidia nforce (motherboard) drivers? Their site has several suggestions, has anyone had success with any of them? I am running 9.2 on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo with nForce2 SPP and nForce2 MCP-T chipsets on the north and south bridges, and 9.2 detected and uses all quite well with no trouble. I am not sure that you need to install the drivers from NVidia, as they are precompiled as kernel modules for you to use. Now for NVidia video cards there is something to do to use the NVidia drivers rather than the open source alternative, and we have discussed that around and around here. Rob Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
HarM, I have only just caught up with this thread.I use the same graphics card.Which I set up with the NVIDIA run. driver and complied the kernel. Would you like me to copy and paste the config 4 file,so you can compare them? Drew - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to put: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Yo, that line was there in the first place, I commented it out and added the Load glx line and checked the XFreelogs.libgl.so loads from the same location, that's not it. It's vexing...could be a permission thingy but I wouldn't know any other than dri in /etc/console.perms. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:58, Drew Martin wrote: HarM, I have only just caught up with this thread.I use the same graphics card.Which I set up with the NVIDIA run. driver and complied the kernel. Would you like me to copy and paste the config 4 file,so you can compare them? Drew Thanks for offering:) No I don't think that'll be of much use...I'm pretty sure it's the way my kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) handles the modules. All the problems are reproduced on different (3) installs so I'm actually surprised no-one else has had these issues. Looks like I'll first test -run 9.1 to see if that'll play nicely with the card...it could be the card itself. It's been sitting in a box on the shelf for over year now, so actually I'd be surprised if it was broke. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:09 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D grin Of course not! H. shocking mess: no more user/lib/module.deps (or something along that line) H. and an unworkable system:( H. Luckily I can boot from another partition that has / mirrored so no real H. damage except me losing an hour or 2. H. H. What a mess:( H. H. Good luck, H. HarM Oh man, I'm sorry! Thats not what usually happens. :-( I'm certainly glad you had it mirrored though. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot. Tried all rpm's available as well the nvidia install scriptnutting:( I keep on getting the same error in XFree:NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed The way I read my logs the nvidia gets loaded fine by the kernel but gets deactivated by XFree when it can't use the glx module with /dev/nvidia0.:-/ Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't that. Does this ring any bells or is it a known Mandrake issue I've missed somewhere? TIA, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 11:03, robin wrote: Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin Well lately, no I haven't but I did a fresh test-install on a spare partition which gave me exactly the same errors. Then I'm already grabbing at straws so I might as well do that so's to be sure. I did make sure the nvidia.o module came from the right kernel as well as manually loading it from it's proper directory to be sure. Thanks, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot. Tried all rpm's available as well the nvidia install scriptnutting:( I keep on getting the same error in XFree:NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed The way I read my logs the nvidia gets loaded fine by the kernel but gets deactivated by XFree when it can't use the glx module with /dev/nvidia0.:-/ Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't that. Does this ring any bells or is it a known Mandrake issue I've missed somewhere? Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the XF86Config-4 file, did you get them both? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to put: Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head
On Thursday 04 Dece9mbr 2003 16:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the XF86Config-4 file, did you get them both? Actually there never was a DRI line in mine. XFdra ke picked that up fine. I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. For instance fsv will not run due to missing openGL support. Running it remotely from a box that's got a rivaTnt card that uses the nv driver, that same fsv will run fine. That's a box running 9.2 in an almost mirrored install, kernel et all but obviously not the nvidia drivers as the riva won't work with those. Maybe I'll give mdk9.1 a test drive again on this box and see what happens then. IIRC it worked fine at the time and installed the nvidia drivers out of the box, or was that 9.0?:-/ Thanks, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
