Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics

2005-02-27 Thread Prem Vilas Fortran Rara
I just posted another issue with nvidia and the solution is related to ACPI. This is the forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=553343#post553343 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics

2005-02-26 Thread Marek Pawinski
john wrote: Hello I have just updated kernel to 2.6.8.1-24. I downloaded the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and installed per instructions. After downloading I tested with startx and everything worked fine. Upon reboot however, the driver would not load. Error message was: Failed to initialize

Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics

2005-02-26 Thread Rick Kunath
On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:17 pm, john wrote: Put nvidia in etc/modprobe.preload Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] nvidia problems w/kernel 2.6.8.1-24

2005-02-07 Thread RickSisler
Graham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RickSisler wrote: I haven't had any problems with the nvidia drivers since 9.1 when I started using Mandrake, but I need some advice here. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8.1-24mdk and rebuilt the nvidia driver with version 6111 from nvidia website. At first

Re: [newbie] nvidia problems w/kernel 2.6.8.1-24

2005-02-06 Thread Graham
RickSisler wrote: I haven't had any problems with the nvidia drivers since 9.1 when I started using Mandrake, but I need some advice here. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8.1-24mdk and rebuilt the nvidia driver with version 6111 from nvidia website. At first it didn't install because of the kernel

Re: [newbie] nvidia card

2005-02-05 Thread Rick Kunath
On Saturday 05 February 2005 06:04 pm, john wrote: I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os

Re: [newbie] nvidia card

2005-02-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 05 February 2005 18:04, john wrote: I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os

Re: [newbie] nvidia card

2005-02-05 Thread john
Bryan Phinney wrote: Edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add the following line: nvidia Now, simply issue the following command as root: modprobe nvidia then start X and the nvidia driver should be loaded and active. Or you can use the RPM's and that line should be added by them.

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Rafa Kamraj
Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi Dennis, mandrake 10 and 10.1 included NVidia driver in the CD, if you have a problem with the new driver from nvidia.com, you can used the driver from your Mandrake Distro. Teddy On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:52:39 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:52, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-16 Thread Hans-Cees Speel
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
I changed to Alsa drivers, that restored the sound, your suggestion for KDE appears to have worked. Thanks for the advice. David Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David Trethewey wrote: I changed to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce

RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread dgordon8
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Trethewey Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated soundcard, using nvaudio drivers. I have no sound now, and KDE crashes on startup. I'm not really sure why it stopped working. If your kdm login manager

Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

2004-08-20 Thread RAT
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was

Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

2004-08-20 Thread SnapafunFrank
RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise

RE: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

2004-08-20 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: SnapafunFrank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules RAT wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 19 August

Re: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

2004-08-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:49 am, RAT wrote: I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install them in text console. There was one conflict with rivafb driver but otherwise it was successfull .. but OpenGL supporst doesn't work. I tried

RE: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules

2004-08-19 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: RAT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] NVidia driver instalation + uninstalling modules I have NVidia GForce FX graphical card. I've downloaded drivers from NVidia.com and I tried to install

Re: [newbie] Nvidia GF4 MX 440 wont work generic drivers in Mandrake

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 15:53, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: 1. Do I need an NVIDIA-kernel to get the generic drivers to work with this card? 2. Without a graphical interface how can I download and install the official nvidia drivers if that is what it is going to take? 3. Could the move have

Re: [newbie] nVidia taints kernel

2004-06-20 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:52, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I think the nVidia driver install didn't go so well after all, although I'm not sure of what this message means. nvidia: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia:

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0

2004-06-19 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 02:04, Josenildo Marques napisa: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. first of all you should mention what you did and what messages showed up :) to install nvidia you should leave your X enviroment and install

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0

2004-06-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 01:04, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA You do not say what is going wrong, but here are a few steps you could check out. 1/ Is your kernel-source the

Re: [newbie] nVidia driver and 10.0

2004-06-19 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Sáb, 2004-06-19 às 07:01, Derek Jennings escreveu: On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 01:04, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I tried to install the nVidia driver, but it failed. The kernel I have here is 2.6.3-7mdk. Any help appreciated. TIA You do not say what is going wrong, but here are a

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread John
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the kernel source

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread John
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:12, John wrote: Walt I had to remove the kernel source that I had installed from the cd's and reinstall. After that it was a very short time and everything was working great. It has been a learning experience for me and frustrating at times. Thanks for your help

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread robin
John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread John
robin wrote: John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? In the Device section where you specify the nvidia driver, add a line like this: #Option IgnoreDisplayDevices

RE: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Cool will try that tonight when I get home, thanks Brian. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Phinney Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10 On Tuesday 18 May 2004

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I think I have found my problem with x not working. Here is a snip of my log file; (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.36.20.23.00 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes (II)

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: It is detecting 2 displays, but I only have one connected. How do I get it to use the other display, rather than the tv-0? In the Device section where you specify the nvidia driver,

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA

2004-05-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:49, Adolfo Bello wrote: I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA

2004-05-18 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 20:49, Derek Jennings wrote: Add the line to /etc/modules.conf Mandrake 10.0 is designed to support both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. In order to facilitate this there is a utility called generate-modprobe.conf which will create a modprobe.conf file from your modules.conf

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:46, David B. Williams wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 04:11 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Alex Brooks
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I needed to recompile Made sure I had the Kernal

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote: Nothing ever works that easy for me. Downloaded the 5336 run pkg. Run it and get errors said that I

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Kevin Ferguson
David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-03 Thread Alex Brooks
Kevin Ferguson wrote: David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? __ The older Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site will recompile to fit the current kernel; the installer will do all the work

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command line. I check the config file and it had been changed

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread David B. Williams
On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver instead of nv, the system booted to the command

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
On May 2, 2004, at 21:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:45, David B. Williams wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:14 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, David B. Williams wrote: OK- Tried the install and that went off without any problems. When I changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Short answer: Yes. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2

2004-03-08 Thread frankieh
Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi, everyone! I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for NVIDIA FX5200 one. I would like to ask you a question: does the NVIDIA card works well with the Mandrake 9.2? Did you have any problems? I am looking forward to reading your helpful responses.

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2

2004-03-08 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik frankieh napisa: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi, everyone! I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for NVIDIA FX5200 one. I would like to ask you a question: does the NVIDIA card works well with the Mandrake 9.2? Did you have any problems? I am looking forward to

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2

2004-03-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:19:05 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ATI rant No, it IS crappy because it is working and badly with some Windows games (GeForce 256 DDR didn't have those problems), and getting proprietary drivers working well (with acceleration) is a matter of

[newbie] NVIDIA FX5600 or 5700 and Mandrake 9.2 was: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2

2004-03-08 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik John Drouhard napisa: What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5600 or 5700 and Mandrake 9.2 was: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2

2004-03-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:13:06 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U__ytkownik John Drouhard napisa__: What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you

Re: [newbie] nVidia GeForce4 MX440 drivers

2004-02-07 Thread anton
Trey Sizemore wrote: Just got a new machine and want to install the new Mandrake 10 Beta 2. I have an nVidia GeForce4 MX440 card on this machine (Pentium 4) and was wondering what is the best way to get it working. Should I be looking at the nVidia site for drivers or use the Open Source

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Lance Benton wrote: I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and headers. On mandrake that would be the kernel-source.rpm for

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i think they are redhat rpm though. doesnt hurt to look

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:24, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. yes they

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Lance Benton
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:57, Lance Benton wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 December 2003 22:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he installs the nvnet drivers. Actually my point was that; To get proper answers you need to ask the proper questions. I've no experience with nforce boards either

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 December 2003 01:33, Lance Benton wrote: I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
From: Lance Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/19 Fri PM 06:33:37 CST To: Mandrake Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install? I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition -

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-05 Thread Drew Martin
Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:58, Drew Martin wrote: HarM, I have only just caught up with this thread.I use the same graphics card.Which I set up with the NVIDIA run. driver and complied the kernel. Would you like me to copy and paste the config 4 file,so you can compare them?

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:09 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D grin Of course not! H. shocking mess: no more user/lib/module.deps (or something along that line) H. and an unworkable system:( H. Luckily I can boot

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 11:03, robin wrote: Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin Well lately, no I haven't but I did a fresh test-install on a spare partition which gave me exactly the same errors. Then I'm already grabbing at straws so I might as well do that so's to be

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread robin
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot.

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 Dece9mbr 2003 16:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you do the: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* thingy? Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D No, I didn't. Anyway, this is what I get: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chmod: failed to

Re: [newbie] nvidia fx56000 with samsung 21 lcd monitor

2003-11-25 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Monday 24 November 2003 20:33, Albrecht wrote: Hey, I have problems getting 9.2 to work with my NVIDIA FX56000 video card and samsung 213T LCD monitor. I tried drakconf and xf86cfg and xf86config, but I am not that experienced w/ the XFree setup. In my desparation I was attempting to

Re: [newbie] nvidia fx56000 with samsung 21 lcd monitor

2003-11-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 24 November 2003 01:33 pm, Albrecht wrote: Hey, I have problems getting 9.2 to work with my NVIDIA FX56000 video card and samsung 213T LCD monitor. I tried drakconf and xf86cfg and xf86config, but I am not that experienced w/ the XFree setup. In my desparation I was attempting to

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 22 November 2003 15:18, Andreas Dittrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry if this has been asked before but after 2 days I wasnt able to sort it out and this is a newbie-list ;-) I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:18 am, Andreas Dittrich wrote: I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the nvidia-driver for my GF4 MX. It says it cant find the header files. I'm running the 2.4.22.10 kernel (standard 9.2 ?) and I installed a src-RPM for that kernel. You

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA drivers

2003-11-22 Thread Andreas Dittrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer schrieb: | On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:18 am, Andreas Dittrich wrote: | |I cant get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run to install the |nvidia-driver for my GF4 MX. It says it cant find the header files. I'm |running the 2.4.22.10

Re: [newbie] nVidia problem with permissions ..

2003-11-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:37 pm, Ricky wrote: Hello all, ( thx..learned alot listening in) but I need some guidance here.. Fyi I'm a 9 week old noob' but windoze user, back from dos 5/6+. I'm dual booting [mandrake 9.1, kernel 2.4.19-13, kde 3.1.4] w/win98 fer games now .. I have a creative

RE: [newbie] nVidia problem with permissions ..

2003-11-06 Thread Ricky
I would suggest the easiest way out of your problem is to reformat your partitions and either restore your Ghost image, or just do a fresh install while preserving your /home partition so your settings are not lost. As for the Nvidia driver all you have to do is edit this line in console.perms

RE: [newbie] nVidia problem with permissions ..

2003-11-06 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Ricky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nVidia problem with permissions .. Hello all, ( thx..learned alot listening in) but I need some guidance here.. Fyi I'm a 9 week old noob' but

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 01 November 2003 1:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
If you don't have the nvidia rpms from the Mandrake PowerPack, you must download the new binary package from nvidia and also the kernel-sources from a Mandrake mirror. Is important to remember that the version of the kernel-sources must be the same of your binary kernel. Launching now the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:58:58 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am not sure what you are trying to get running with a Nvidia driver. I have a Nvidia GForce 4 video card that runs perfectly out of the box, and I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo that under 9.2 seems to be working

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:14, HaywireMac wrote: Well, I don't think you are going to see the performance from the Mandrake driver that you will see from the Nvidia driver. Even Tom Brinkman, who foreswears using the proprietary driver, IIRC, has said as much. As long as you have the

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:33:45 -0500 Walt Frampus [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I definitely see a difference using the Nvidia driver compared to what was out of the box. I had no problem installing it. Not to blame Mandrake or anyone else, though, if Nvidia would open up their driver

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 November 2003 07:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:33:45 -0500 Walt Frampus [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I definitely see a difference using the Nvidia driver compared to what was out of the box. I had no problem installing it. Not to blame Mandrake or anyone

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:17 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi Greg, I have just check the kernel's on my PC(by looking in MCC remove programs).I have kernel-2.4.22.10mdk,kernel-2.4.22.6mdk and kernel-source 2.4.22-21mdk,so none of it match's. Is there any way of making everything

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2003-10-13 Thread mike
which version of the driver are you trying? have you checked the permissions ? did you install in run level 3 ? do you know how to use mc ( midnight commander ) ? Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I'm trying(very badly) to install the Nvidia drivers on to our pc.I'm running 9.2

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2003-10-13 Thread Drew Martin
, October 13, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers which version of the driver are you trying? have you checked the permissions ? did you install in run level 3 ? do you know how to use mc ( midnight commander ) ? Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I'm trying(very

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