Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-11 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
... Thanks for the links above, I have gotten to the point now where the NVidia installer reports that it has installed a driver for my kernel, but that the driver conflicts with a module called rivafb. Can anyone tell me how to disable the rivafb module in my kernel? Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-11 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:43 -0700, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Thanks! My ritzy NVidia FX 5300 PCI Express appears to be working flawlessly. But for some reason when I run harddrake and select the video I get this: Identification Vendor: (null) Description: Media class: DISPLAY_VGA Connection

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Jan 2005 08:53, Maureen wrote: Hi all, I'm fixing to rebuild the puter and have heard horror stories about nvidia. I have been using the download version of Mandrake 10.1, the powerpack. Some one said that the download version

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Edward Holcroft
You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. ed On Monday, 10 January 2005 10:53, Maureen wrote: Hi all, I'm fixing to rebuild the puter and have heard horror stories about nvidia. I have been using the download version of Mandrake 10.1, the powerpack.

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Lorin Jenny Pino
- Original Message - From: Hugh Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:10 AM Subject: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia I have recently had a lot of trouble with an nvidia card - I think the problem has been with the card, not the linux drivers.

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread JR
On Monday 10 January 2005 08:41 am, Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: - Original Message - From: Hugh Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:10 AM Subject: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia I have recently had a lot of trouble with an nvidia card - I

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Ian
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this forum. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html The instructions certainly

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:50, JR wrote: Could any notebook users post their experiences with 3D accelleration also? Jarlath I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with an NVidia Geforce4 5650. When I got it, it was so new that it was unsupported by NVidia's Linux drivers and I had to use the generic

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:34 +, Ian wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this forum.

RE: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Hugh Dixon
wondering if they are used, and to get some user responses. Hugh -Original Message- From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11-Jan-05 05:34 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Dave Ashmore
Kenneth Rhodes wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:34 +, Ian wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:53 am, Maureen wrote: Hi all, I'm fixing to rebuild the puter and have heard horror stories about nvidia. I have been using the download version of Mandrake 10.1, the powerpack. Some one said that the download version for club members doesn't have the nvidia

Re: [newbie] Re: nVidia drivers killed my Xfree?

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:56:00 -0500 Eric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Hey, me again :-P, | I recently downloaded nVidia drivers from the nVidia website, installed|them with their kernal driver thingamaboper, and restarted my Mandrake 9.1|system to

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
On Thursday 27 December 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: I agree. I have an Athlon 1GHz and I've given up trying to use nvidia's drivers. I too have noticed that there seem to be a lot of problems with AMD cpus and nvidia drivers. Because I have 1152MB RAM I use Mandrake's enterprise kernels.

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Steve
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:23:37AM -0500, Wes Gregg wrote: snip I hope you get it all worked out before you get tired of trying. Another question: My box (Mandrake Linux 8.1 Powerpack) says I have kernels 2.4.8 and 2.2.19. But when I installed (over and over) I never saw a place for

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread skinky
On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:23, Wes Gregg wrote: | I have read several references that stated we need to only use a | (BEEFY) AMD-approved power supply. Especially with the faster/newer | AMDs and video cards as they draw lots of wattage. Also with more ram, | bigger/faster spinning