Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-15 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, given that a go now... unfortunately failed build. Unfortunately, that's what life on the bleeding edge of kernel development can be like... Here is the bits I think are relevant to it failing:   CC      kernel/rt.o   CC      kernel/latency.o kernel/latency.c: In function

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-12 Thread James Titcumb
Daniel, I have run the RP-patch-script... What do I do now? I've not actually made a kernel before :( James P.S. I sent this off-list to you, and your MTA rejected it...) 550 81.154.99.172 is listed at combined.njabl.org :( Daniel James wrote: Hi James, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, I have run the RP-patch-script... What do I do now? I've not actually made a kernel before :( Did the script download and patch a kernel source package for you? If so, unpack it in /usr/src/linux/ and run: make menuconfig as root. See:

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-09 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail about beta tesing a multimedia kernel... Unfortunately, I lost that e-mail when i was messing around with my mail server settings (duh!)... Could whoever it was please resend? :) That was me! I'm currently working towards using 2.6.11 with the

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-08 Thread James Titcumb
Hi all, Someone sent me an off-list e-mail about beta tesing a multimedia kernel... Unfortunately, I lost that e-mail when i was messing around with my mail server settings (duh!)... Could whoever it was please resend? :) Thanks James James Titcumb wrote: It appears that it is a mistake on my

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread Corey Hickey
Sorry, didn't send this to the list last time. Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? Yes, I have one and it works fine. I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread James Titcumb
/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works quite well! Very excited about that! Now, I want to get

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread James Titcumb
. Follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian 3. apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings 4. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread David Hartveld
James Titcumb schreef: Hi Jens, You seem to know a bit about the nVidia support. I have followed instructions as you said, and all seemed to go well, but XFree86.0.log says it can't load the module. Please see the logfile attatched. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread Jens Vogel
your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Done. Hope that helps, Jens Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver. I have

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread James Titcumb
It appears that it is a mistake on my part... after checking Jen's reply carefully, I found out that somewhere between when I first started trying to install the nvidia drivers and now... my kernel version had changed... previously, I had the correct headers