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