Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-29 Thread Duncan
On Thu 27 Mar 2003 08:16, Levi Ramsey posted as excerpted below: Perhaps there should be an NVidia howto covering this issue which we can refer users to... Don't know about a howto, but they pretty much cover it on the site, AND in the readme. Both state specifically that the driver MUST

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:39, Joerg Skottke wrote: Per, thank you for the information. This means the XF86Config-4 file is kept when upgrading? I simply ignored that. However this is a problem since GeForce cards are rather common stuff and

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread John Allen
On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:55, Joerg Skottke wrote: I filed 3552 with a suggested fix anyway. The download edition should not fail at this point, new users won't evaluate any further when they find they have no gui. New users will not suffer from this problem. This problem only occurs if

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 10:08, John Allen wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:55, Joerg Skottke wrote: I filed 3552 with a suggested fix anyway. The download edition should not fail at this point, new users won't evaluate any further when

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread John Allen
On Thursday 27 March 2003 09:19, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 10:08, John Allen wrote: It would be best if the installer detected an installed nvidia accelerated driver, and informed the user that they will have to

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 07:39, Joerg Skottke wrote: Per, thank you for the information. This means the XF86Config-4 file is kept when upgrading? I simply ignored that. However this is a problem since GeForce cards are rather common stuff and none of them will work anymore after updating.

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: 2) Disable the glx module if present and the card is an nvidia. Advantages and disadvantages similar - it'd produce a working file, but annoy people who didn't want it modifying. But all they would need to do to get it

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-27 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Thu Mar 27 14:05 +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 07:39, Joerg Skottke wrote: Per, thank you for the information. This means the XF86Config-4 file is kept when upgrading? I simply ignored that. However this is a problem since GeForce cards are rather common stuff

[Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-26 Thread Joerg Skottke
After updating mdk9.0 to 9.1 the drivers for GeForce2 cards are unusable - No X. Solved this by using fbdev, getting the drivers from nvidia.com and reinstall them. I think the correct driver should have been svga in the download edition and nvidia in the commercial package. Skotti

Re: [Cooker] GeForce2-Cards misconfigured when updating from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-26 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:12, Joerg Skottke wrote: After updating mdk9.0 to 9.1 the drivers for GeForce2 cards are unusable - No X. Solved this by using fbdev, getting the drivers from nvidia.com and reinstall them. I think the correct driver