Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-10-02 Thread kiran
The real key it to get the .src.rpms or the tar.gz files and compile them. make sure you haven't changed the kernel src/headers from the actual kernel you are running and you should be fine. One downer is that if you do change/upgrade kernels you will have to re-compile the drivers (personal

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-10-01 Thread Lorne
On Monday 30 September 2002 10:31 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-30 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:50 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-30 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory. Not sure if you saw my last

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Tim C
On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type: 'make' as root

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:32, Tim C wrote: On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:51 am, John McQuillen wrote: directory. Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change nv to nvidia under the graphic section for your driver. If you are in X, please log out and back in. While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
thank you very much for the information form all of you. I'm not ignoring you. I have downloaded the files and will work on them as I have time. I will report back on how it goes. On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:09 pm, you wrote: Please try these:

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:33 pm, Lorne wrote: I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that came with the driver. The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about what my config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading between the lines. the

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
] Nvidia Gforce4 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:32:19 -0700 From: Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:32 am, you wrote: On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar. gz

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:49 pm, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: OOPS! Let me try this again. If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without rebooting the system? For some reason every now and then my mouse process is dying. ?? The mouse is

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
OOPS! Let me try this again. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:32:19 -0700 From: Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:32 am, you wrote: On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote: I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. Ok, see here, one should XFdrake with mandrake - really! I'm not gonna name

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line. When this process dies, then I can no longer do that

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote: Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line.

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:09 am, you wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type:

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:18 pm, et wrote: with a geforce 4 and MAndrake before 9.0, you are not going to have a working Xfree -4 setup, you will be useing framebuffer and xfree3.3.6 he can have one if he uses the nvidia drivers. I upgraded to gf4 from and gf2 while running 8.2 and

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread becklesw
1:41 am Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4 I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in. There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found those yet. On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:00 pm, s wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote: I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. Ok, see here, one should

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:44 pm, Lorne wrote: WOW! I was of the mistaken opinion that running that config tool would rewrite/overwrite the XF86Config. NOT! I did as you suggested and renamed the original files this time. Still no go. Same thing as before. What happens is X starts to

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
- From: Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:41 am Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4 I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in. There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found those yet. On Saturday 28 September

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:11 pm, you wrote: Well, number one, you're logging into window manager as root. please try user. Also, add Option NvAGP 1 to your config file Section Device and try again as user. This didn't seem to make any difference. I'm going to reboot again and see if

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm going to disable firewire, usb and some

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote: Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line.

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:31 pm, s wrote: I'm so stinking close to getting X to start, but no joy yet. If I use that config took you suggest, it says it works fine in test mode, but then when I try to fire up the xwindows it dies. I've been tweaking the config file for over an hour

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory. HOT DAMN! You are the man Thank you thank you thank

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:46 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory. HOT

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort

[expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Lorne
Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an MSI card and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep getting a (EE) No devices detected error message. It surely looks serious and bad and

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Philip Webb
020928 Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? --- big snip --- (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found IIRC i had that when i tried a screen size my

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread s
On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an MSI card and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep getting a (EE) No devices detected

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Lorne
I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in. There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found those yet. On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread s
Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type: 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting