[newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
Hi Greg, I have now sorted it out and have the drivers running,thanks for your help. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Saturday 01 November 2003 1:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I am not sure what you are trying to get running with a Nvidia driver. I have a Nvidia GForce 4 video card that runs perfectly out of the box, and I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo that under 9.2 seems to be working very well with Nvidia Lan, Nvidia North and South bridge chips. Don't download the drivers from the Nvidia site, they are precompilied for another kernel, and will only lead to trouble. Mandrake's Nvidia support is pretty good now that 9.2 has come out, and for video was great since 9.0, which is the earliest I have used Mandrake, and NVidia cards. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
If you don't have the nvidia rpms from the Mandrake PowerPack, you must download the new binary package from nvidia and also the kernel-sources from a Mandrake mirror. Is important to remember that the version of the kernel-sources must be the same of your binary kernel. Launching now the nvidia binary package the nvidia modules will be compiled according to your kernel. I have it runing fine under 9.2 regards Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Lunes, 3 de Noviembre de 2003 00:58, Rob Blomquist escribió: On Saturday 01 November 2003 1:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I am not sure what you are trying to get running with a Nvidia driver. I have a Nvidia GForce 4 video card that runs perfectly out of the box, and I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo that under 9.2 seems to be working very well with Nvidia Lan, Nvidia North and South bridge chips. Don't download the drivers from the Nvidia site, they are precompilied for another kernel, and will only lead to trouble. Mandrake's Nvidia support is pretty good now that 9.2 has come out, and for video was great since 9.0, which is the earliest I have used Mandrake, and NVidia cards. Rob -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:58:58 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am not sure what you are trying to get running with a Nvidia driver. I have a Nvidia GForce 4 video card that runs perfectly out of the box, and I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo that under 9.2 seems to be working very well with Nvidia Lan, Nvidia North and South bridge chips. Don't download the drivers from the Nvidia site, they are precompilied for another kernel, and will only lead to trouble. Mandrake's Nvidia support is pretty good now that 9.2 has come out, and for video was great since 9.0, which is the earliest I have used Mandrake, and NVidia cards. Well, I don't think you are going to see the performance from the Mandrake driver that you will see from the Nvidia driver. Even Tom Brinkman, who foreswears using the proprietary driver, IIRC, has said as much. As long as you have the kernel sources, the Nvidia driver should install fine, no matter which kernel you are running. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:14, HaywireMac wrote: Well, I don't think you are going to see the performance from the Mandrake driver that you will see from the Nvidia driver. Even Tom Brinkman, who foreswears using the proprietary driver, IIRC, has said as much. As long as you have the kernel sources, the Nvidia driver should install fine, no matter which kernel you are running. I definitely see a difference using the Nvidia driver compared to what was out of the box. I had no problem installing it. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:33:45 -0500 Walt Frampus [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I definitely see a difference using the Nvidia driver compared to what was out of the box. I had no problem installing it. Not to blame Mandrake or anyone else, though, if Nvidia would open up their driver development, it would be better for *everybody*, including Nvidia. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. -- Alfred Jarry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Sunday 02 November 2003 07:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:33:45 -0500 Walt Frampus [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I definitely see a difference using the Nvidia driver compared to what was out of the box. I had no problem installing it. Not to blame Mandrake or anyone else, though, if Nvidia would open up their driver development, it would be better for *everybody*, including Nvidia. We should be clear here, as there are two drivers available for nvidia video cards. The open source one, nv.o is provided in the download edition and is free. It has accelerated 2D support and is quite stable. The closed source one, nvidia.o is provided by nvidia and contains support for accelerated 3D. The PowerPack includes this driver and the Mandrake installer will install it if is available. Also, this driver is available in rpm format in the commercial download section of the Club website. The version you get from the club is built for a particular kernel, so you have to be careful and make sure you match it up properly. nVidia now provides an install package that will recompile the kernel module interface to match your running kernel if one does not exist for you. It works very well. It is sometimes referred to as the .run file From a performance standpoint, the nvidia.o driver you get from the PowerPack or the Club in rpm format should be no different than the one you get from the nvidia .run installer. Either of those will provide substantial improvement in 3D from the free nv.o driver that is available in the Download Edition. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I downloaded the kernel-source from Mandrake,the install gets to the build kernel,it starts OK and gets to about 75% and then fails. Has anyone got a clue how to sort this? Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I downloaded the kernel-source from Mandrake,the install gets to the build kernel,it starts OK and gets to about 75% and then fails. Has anyone got a clue how to sort this? Drew Does your kernel-source match the running kernel? i.e., are you running kernel 2.4.22-21, but you have kernel-source 2.4.22-10 installed -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
Hi Greg, I have just check the kernel's on my PC(by looking in MCC remove programs).I have kernel-2.4.22.10mdk,kernel-2.4.22.6mdk and kernel-source 2.4.22-21mdk,so none of it match's. Is there any way of making everything match?The only thing I can think off is doing is a fresh full install instead of an upgrade. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:17 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi Greg, I have just check the kernel's on my PC(by looking in MCC remove programs).I have kernel-2.4.22.10mdk,kernel-2.4.22.6mdk and kernel-source 2.4.22-21mdk,so none of it match's. Is there any way of making everything match?The only thing I can think off is doing is a fresh full install instead of an upgrade. Drew That is your problem. No need to reinstall, you just updated your kernel-source when you applied the updates and didn;t update your kernel. The kernel-source is what you want, because that is most current, so we just have to get your running kernel to be the same. If you have a update repository defined for rpmdrake/urpmi, you can eithe type as root at the command line, 'urpmi kernel', or go into the install software module of rpmdrake and install the new kernel that matches your source. Then reboot into the new kernel and the nvidia installer should compile with no problem. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
