Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:19, pa3gcu wrote: > > yet, # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run would not work. > > Then i am sorry to say you have NOT followed them to the "Tee". I need to rephrase, i have just discovered another descrepancy, or at least it looks like it to me, let me explain.

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-26 Thread pa3gcu
> make is (was) installed. > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, did not > work. That opption is NOT what you want to use, its for a "non-running kernel". > > So, I obtained NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from nvidia.com, and ran > as: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:30 AM 3/26/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: make is (was) installed. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, did not work. So, I obtained NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from nvidia.com, and ran as: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, and thi

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-26 Thread joy
Ray Olszewski wrote: Hard to say from this description if you are seeing the problems I read about or not. With a sufficiently fast CPU ... a 3 GHz P4, say ... I could run xine this way using xshm, and that video method is a real CPU hog. A better test would be something like this: 1. run a si

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
make is (was) installed. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, did not work. So, I obtained NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from nvidia.com, and ran as: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, and this worked (seemingly). I set my X driver to be nvi

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:06, pa3gcu wrote: > After all if you read; >  ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README > You will see that my examples are written there, they are not there for the > duration, they are there to help you. I am glad i did not write this README, i have

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:28, Ray Olszewski wrote: > >No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can assure > >you. AH, now i dont know how i missed it, however i now see what Ray meant, you seem to be talking about an RPM install, ok anyway soory for the miscomm, how

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:28, Ray Olszewski wrote: > >No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can assure > >you. > > > >When you untarred the source a directory called linux-2.4.18 should have > > been created you then need to create a symlink to "linux" for my example >

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I tried adding/removing spaces from the Makefile and I still cannot get > 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' to function alright. I did > download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia's website and have > not installed the

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:40, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:07 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: > >On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > In fact, it should read > > > > > > EXTRAVERSION =-k7 > > > > > > (without the space before the hyphen). > > > >No sorry Ray its

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:46 AM 3/25/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: I tried adding/removing spaces from the Makefile and I still cannot get 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' to function alright. I did download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia's website and have not installed the Debian packa

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
I tried adding/removing spaces from the Makefile and I still cannot get 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' to function alright. I did download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia's website and have not installed the Debian package nvidia-kernel-source. 'uname -r' gives 2.4.18-k7

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:07 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > In fact, it should read > > EXTRAVERSION =-k7 > > (without the space before the hyphen). No sorry Ray its not a typo, its how it should be a as matter of fact, It possably works without a whi

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:15 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 15:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', > extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instru

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 15:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', > extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below > as is. > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > In fact, it should read > >          EXTRAVERSION =-k7 > > (without the space before the hyphen). No sorry Ray its not a typo, its how it should be a as matter of fact, It possably works without a white space but AFAIK white spaces are ignore

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:46 AM 3/25/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below as is. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-25 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18', extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below as is. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with an error. # cat /var/log/nvidia-

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:47 PM 3/24/2004 +0530, joy wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: I haven't myself switched to the 2.6.x kernel series yet, but I have seen reports warning of problems with some external add-in modules, including the nvidia drivers ... showing up as high CPU loads caused, I think, by context switchi

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread joy
Ray Olszewski wrote: I haven't myself switched to the 2.6.x kernel series yet, but I have seen reports warning of problems with some external add-in modules, including the nvidia drivers ... showing up as high CPU loads caused, I think, by context switching not being handled efficiently. (Also

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread joy
pa3gcu wrote: I dont want to sound like a wet blanket, however i have a machine here running a 2.6 kernel, be aware there are issues with the nvidia video drivers, or at least i have some. I too had some problems in the beginning, but I believe APIC support on uniprocessor systems breaks the

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-23 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 18:19, joy wrote: > yup, I suggest the same. get your own kernel sources and compile them. > if you get a 2.6 series kernel, you need to upgrade a few packages on > the system( the version numbr of the software  required is found in the > sources in /Documentation/Changes.I

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:49 PM 3/23/2004 +0530, joy wrote: [...] (NOTE: The one thing I cannot vouch for is that kernel-source-2.4.18 and kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 packages actually match up. I always compile my own kernels after installing, so I have no actual experience with using the Debian kernel-image-* packages

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-23 Thread joy
Ray Olszewski wrote: Short answer: to use the nVidia proprietary X driver, you need on your system the kernel source that matches your installed kernel. This is so because part of what the nVidia package provides is a customized framebuffer in the form of a kernel module called "nvidia". How d

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-23 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 05:44, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site > (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. > > I got the latest version which gives me a file: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. I

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:44 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. I got the latest version which gives me a file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. # sh NVIDIA-Linu

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. I got the latest version which gives me a file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with a series of

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread joy
Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel get all the packages that seemed relevant. Someh

switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel get all the packages that seemed relevant. Somehow I missed choosing XFree8