RE: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
Yep. -Original Message- From: Rick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1 OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Hmmm... At the console, rpm --help doesn't even list --rebuild (of course, it lists --rebuilddb but that's different). Yet, if I enter rpm --rebuild (with no package mentioned) I receive the message: rpmb: no packages files given for rebuild This seems to imply that the --rebuild option does, indeed exist. So... will this create a binary build RPM from a SRC RPM?? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They offer src.rpm's om the nvidia site... why not make your own rpm's? rpm --rebuild NVidia_blaah_blaah.src.rpm Greetings, Ralph Terry S. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry -- Homepage: http://www.tuxpower.f2s.com/ __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 23:46:13 +0100 Ralph wrote: Maybe man rpm will tell you more? Well yes, an example is rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.src.rpm ~ as in rpm --rebuild filename Can anyone tell me what the advantage would be of using the new Nvidia drivers over the ones that are installed with mandrake (running 8.0 here)? And is there an easy way to go back to the original if the new ones don't work for me? I sometimes experience strange effects in X where the display looks like repetitions of 15 or so horizontal lines, making reading it impossible, and all I can do is a reboot. Perhaps the new drivers would fix this problem. I have the Nvidia Gforce 32mb. I suspect that this problem comes up only after playing lots of MPEGs etc with mplayer but I am not sure. Paul -- Only the meetings that are not in our agenda will change our lives. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
Paul, Can anyone tell me what the advantage would be of using the new Nvidia drivers over the ones that are installed with mandrake (running 8.0 here)? nVidia's drivers support 3D. The stock Mandrake driver (nv) does not. And is there an easy way to go back to the original if the new ones don't work for me? Yes. rpm -e the new one, and change your XFree86 config file back to its original condition (changing, what, two or three lines). I sometimes experience strange effects in X where the display looks like repetitions of 15 or so horizontal lines, making reading it impossible, and all I can do is a reboot. Perhaps the new drivers would fix this problem. Reboot? Are you not able to simply restart the X server? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:10:21 -0700 Miark wrote: Hi Miark, Can anyone tell me what the advantage would be of using the new Nvidia drivers over the ones that are installed with mandrake (running 8.0 here)? nVidia's drivers support 3D. The stock Mandrake driver (nv) does not. That alone would not be enough reason to upgrade. As far as I know, 3D is mainly for games, right? I never play games on the computer. And is there an easy way to go back to the original if the new ones don't work for me? Yes. rpm -e the new one, and change your XFree86 config file back to its original condition (changing, what, two or three lines). Ah, that is simple enough :) I sometimes experience strange effects in X where the display looks like repetitions of 15 or so horizontal lines, making reading it impossible, and all I can do is a reboot. Perhaps the new drivers would fix this problem. Reboot? Are you not able to simply restart the X server? If I just restart X the problem persists. I never had this problem before, just after getting things running on this new PC with the Nvidia card this strange stuff started happening. And I still suspect that playing movies is the problem. When I don't play movies I can easily get an uptime of 30+ days. And when I get the UPS probably more, since the power here sometimes disappears for a minute. Thanks for the help! Paul -- Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
One advantage that the Nvida drivers give is a better use of the AGP interface. With the native drivers, the X gui seems much snappier. I enabled Nvida style Agp and played around with some of the options; I did'nt do much except leave the Agp interface under Nvidia control. To me the gui seems quicker. But bear in mind that I have not run any formal benchmarks, so I don't have any concrete beyond doubt numbers for you; all I'm able to convey is a humanistic feel for the system being snappier; so take that for what it's worth. One thing that is beyond doubt, however, is that games like Quake3 and Baldur's Gate2 benefit in large degree from these drivers. So you can take that for what it's worth, also. On Sunday 10 February 2002 01:28, you wrote: *snippers If I just restart X the problem persists. I never had this problem before, just after getting things running on this new PC with the Nvidia card this strange stuff started happening. And I still suspect that playing movies is the problem. When I don't play movies I can easily get an uptime of 30+ days. And when I get the UPS probably more, since the power here sometimes disappears for a minute. Thanks for the help! Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
They offer src.rpm's om the nvidia site... why not make your own rpm's? rpm --rebuild NVidia_blaah_blaah.src.rpm Greetings, Ralph Terry S. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry -- Homepage: http://www.tuxpower.f2s.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
Try using their source rpms. The installation instruction are in the README at the bottom of this page. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux On Friday 08 February 2002 02:07 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Hmmm... At the console, rpm --help doesn't even list --rebuild (of course, it lists --rebuilddb but that's different). Yet, if I enter rpm --rebuild (with no package mentioned) I receive the message: rpmb: no packages files given for rebuild This seems to imply that the --rebuild option does, indeed exist. So... will this create a binary build RPM from a SRC RPM?? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They offer src.rpm's om the nvidia site... why not make your own rpm's? rpm --rebuild NVidia_blaah_blaah.src.rpm Greetings, Ralph Terry S. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry -- Homepage: http://www.tuxpower.f2s.com/ __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
Hey there Rick Rick wrote: OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Please call me Ralph :-) Sounds so formal... Mr. Slooten... Yes, by doing that you do create your own binaries... Hmmm... At the console, rpm --help doesn't even list --rebuild (of course, it lists --rebuilddb but that's different). Yet, if I enter rpm --rebuild (with no package mentioned) I receive the message: Maybe man rpm will tell you more? Well yes, an example is rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.src.rpm ~ as in rpm --rebuild filename rpmb: no packages files given for rebuild Correct, you have to specify which file to rebuild. This seems to imply that the --rebuild option does, indeed exist. Correct.. So... will this create a binary build RPM from a SRC RPM?? Well, it should do. I do believe you will need the kernel-devel files and such to do this though. If it compiles correctly, and ends of saying RPM: Created NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.i586.rpm (or whatever) then you should be able to find the 2 files it's created in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/whatever architecture you have/ Good luck, and if you have problems, please just let me / us know... Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://www.tuxpower.f2s.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
