Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 07:37, John Richard Smith wrote:
So if I'm to compile a purpose made nvidia driver is this going to be
from tar balls or src rpms ?
John
By compiling from source, it's going to be FOR your system - for your
everything. That's why I almost always
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and
compile with my gcc compiler ?
John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as
well use the .run
All subsequent release will
Just throwing in my 2 cents worth here, but I really like the new NVidia
driver package. Took all of 1 minute to install and configure. Who says
you can write installation systems that work?
Just had to make a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, ran the shell script to
install the NVidia package, and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I tried that script as well. I was wondering what you had to change in
XF86config-4? Was it just the normal change of the nv driver to nvidia? I
already had the nvidia drivers that I installed from the
NVIDIA_Kernel.src.rpm and used the rpm
The extra sections to edit are based on whether or not you previously
had an ATi video card or not. Entries in the file could include the
Option line regarding dri, or DPMS. I didn't finish up with the rest
of the README file, but I did catch a line that mentioned something
about being able to set
G_REEPER wrote:
John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as
well use the .run
All subsequent release will only be offered in this format.
Charles
Say, Charles, is there some special website for
4349
I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:46:43 +0100
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or
is this a Mandrake version ?
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349
Charles
--
God made the integers; all else is
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:46, John Richard Smith wrote:
Say, Charles, is there some special website for
4349
I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or is this a
Mandrake version ?
John
It's the special Canadian version - comes with donuts and a case of
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 23:30, Lanman wrote:
Now, if only I could get the SVHS output working, I'd be all set. I have
a 42 plasmavision screen that's dying to become a computer monitor!
Lanman
If you read through the README's and other doco's, you should find that
there are numerous
On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Thankyou all.
I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you
could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:-
Francisco Alcaraz wrote:
Richard,
For me the rpms from textar runed perfectly
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Thankyou all.
I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you
could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:-
Francisco Alcaraz wrote:
Richard,
For me the rpms from textar
Ok, so I installed,
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
from texstar website.
Now I always got on boot-up,
probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00)
processing sda, scd0, scd1,
adding devfsd device names,
adding information
this repeated about 10 times,
but now I get
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 5:13 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Ok, so I installed,
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
from texstar website.
Now I always got on boot-up,
probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00)
processing sda, scd0, scd1,
adding devfsd device
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 02:13, John Richard Smith wrote:
Ok, so I installed,
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
from texstar website.
Now I always got on boot-up,
probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00)
processing sda, scd0, scd1,
adding devfsd device names,
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 02:13, John Richard Smith wrote:
Ok, so I installed,
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm
from texstar website.
Now I always got on boot-up,
probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00)
processing sda, scd0, scd1,
adding devfsd
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 07:49, John Richard Smith wrote:
Well, I get the usual terminal, I login as root, and starx, and I get
the same warnings as abovementioned.
Anyway attatched is my current /etc/x11/xf86Config-4
and var/log/XFree86.0.log
see if you can spot something ?
thanks,
John
You should be able to uncomment the line for dbe extension.
Also since the log shows it is failing when it is trying to detect the screen
I am wondering if it is your screen config it does not like.
You could try reducing the default colour depth as an experiment
DefaultColorDepth 16
and
Richard,
For me the rpms from textar runed perfectly (well, there are some NVIDIA bugs
but it is a Nvidia problem).
Start in mode 3 (text)
login as root
rpm -ivh Nvidia_kernel...
rpm -ivh Nvidia-GLX
Then, XFdrake; select your graphic card but in the propietary Nvidia point,
not in the
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