Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
I found the link very useful when using the NVidia drivers for my geforce2: http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html It's written for debian, but works for mandrake if you keep in mind that debian uses different directories for their libraries. You did remove the Mesa libraries

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, and the output of cat /proc/version, lsspci, rpm -qa | grep XFree, XF86Config-4, and anything more you think would be useful... I'll try to look at them... On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: I tried all of this, and now UT cores when I try to start it. If I

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Darin am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:53:36PM -0400: Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? Install XFree86 4.0.1. Get the src.rpms from NVidia. As root, do a rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-file-name and rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_glx-file-name. In

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... -- Stephen On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, and

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... Well, if you use

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles Curley am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:21:20AM -0600: Well, if you use startx, it's a shell script; you could add those commands to it. Or /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is run toward the end of the boot sequence. Or don't do anything but use the rpm files which will add alias

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installationÓ. [2000-10-17 15:36] One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Ok conf.modules experts: How do I auto load the driver for the ov511 chip (common in webcams) for my Creative Webcam 3. Ath present I load is in rc.local with modprobe ov511 Note that this is a USB cam, if that affects anything. Buchan "J.A. Magallon" wrote: Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe:

[expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread Darin
Hi, I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running under LM 7.2 RC1 but I'm having a few problems. Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? The instructions on the nVidia site are cryptic at best. All I can get now is my monitor going into oversync when

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:53:36 Darin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running under LM 7.2 RC1 but I'm having a few problems. Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? The instructions on the nVidia site are cryptic at best. All I can get

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread Darin
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: Passes: - Get XF401 working with "nv" driver. - Decide if you want to try AGP access with nVidia's propietary AGP or with kernel AGP GART. Configure your kernel and build it. AFTER that, build NVdriver kernel module. Its build depends on gart being