Re: [TriLUG] Re: NVidia drivers cause Segmentation Faults in RH9 and Fedora Core beta

2003-10-01 Thread Roberto J. Dohnert
My next strategy is to go ahead and reinstall and use the updated drivers from NVidia and see if that works it out. Upon contact with NVidia I learned that with the 4363 drivers there was an incompatibility issue with Red Hat Linux 9, thus probably the reason why Fedora Core bombed too. I will

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-09-07 Thread Douglas Phillipson
I just bought a Nvidia Gforce 4 card that works great with RH 9 and NVidia's driver. Just FYI... Doug P Lukas Fried wrote: I have a GeForce 2 MX (32 MB) video card in my RH9 box and I'm trying to get NVIDIA's driver to work. I followed their instructions online: I downloaded the IA-32 driver

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-09-07 Thread Douglas Phillipson
When you start X do you see the Nvidia logo prior to Xwindows starting? Doug P Lukas Fried wrote: I have a GeForce 2 MX (32 MB) video card in my RH9 box and I'm trying to get NVIDIA's driver to work. I followed their instructions online: I downloaded the IA-32 driver and installed it after

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-09-07 Thread Lukas Fried
On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Douglas Phillipson wrote: When you start X do you see the Nvidia logo prior to Xwindows starting? Yes, but I only see the logo when I boot directly to runlevel 5. - Lukas Fried -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-09-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 07 September 2003 05:25 pm, Lukas Fried wrote: Yes, but I only see the logo when I boot directly to runlevel 5. I usually turn that off anyway. -- Hoyt -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-09-06 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:02:01PM -0400, Lukas Fried wrote: I have a GeForce 2 MX (32 MB) video card in my RH9 box and I'm trying to get NVIDIA's driver to work. I followed their instructions online: I downloaded the IA-32 driver and installed it after exiting the X Server. Then I updated

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Fried
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:32 PM, HoytDuff wrote: Try using the nVidia agp driver. The nVidia docs will tell you how to set up the XF86Config file. It appears that I don't have AGP support in my XF86Config file. I read the part of the driver readme about setting up AGP but I don't have

Re: NVIDIA Drivers in RH9

2003-08-14 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 14:14, Lukas Fried wrote: Can someone please help me to fix this problem so I can boot into X without having my system crash? Try using the nVidia agp driver. The nVidia docs will tell you how to set up the XF86Config file. -- Hoyt -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Bell
This might help you. The driver installation program complained about permissions on a bunch of its files, so I had to do a bunch of chmods to get it to work right: chmod o+rx /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4363 chmod o+rx /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.4363 chmod o+rx /usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1.0.4363

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Greg Bell wrote: This might help you. The driver installation program complained about permissions on a bunch of its files, so I had to do a bunch of chmods to get it to work right: chmod o+rx /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4363 chmod o+rx /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.4363

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-28 Thread Edward Dekkers
Bret Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:59, Edward Dekkers wrote: Yeah I see what you mean. All users other than root? Bret (Ashamed look on face) Myself and root are the only X users I normally use. I just tried to start X on my wife's account and it started fine. Instead of trying

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Edward Dekkers
David Hollister wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 19:28, Edward Dekkers wrote: Do you have a line like this in your /etc/modules.conf? If not, try adding it: alias char-major-195 nvidia It's already there. As for the root/non-root problem, I haven't a clue. Nor do I :( Thanks for the reply.

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Edward Dekkers
Gerry Doris wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: I'm using the Nvidia drivers on two RH 9 boxes successfully. They used to be RH 8.0 and before that 7.3. In other words, the drivers should be functional. They have always been good for me too, this is the first time I've seen

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Gerry Doris
Gerry Doris wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: I'm using the Nvidia drivers on two RH 9 boxes successfully. They used to be RH 8.0 and before that 7.3. In other words, the drivers should be functional. They have always been good for me too, this is the first time

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:18, Gerry Doris wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: I'm using the Nvidia drivers on two RH 9 boxes successfully. They used to be RH 8.0 and before that 7.3. In other words, the drivers should be functional.

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Edward Dekkers
Gerry Doris wrote: Ed, I've attached my version of /etc/X11/XF86Config for you to look at. For some reason I thought it would be XF86Config-4 but that doesn't exist on this box (a RH 9)??? In any case, I just installed the Nvidia drivers tonight on this one and it worked perfectly. Gerry

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Edward Dekkers
Bret Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:18, Gerry Doris wrote: Hmm IF you are getting x up and windows are not getting painted correctly, cold it be an issue with the window manager rather than the Xserver? Yep - sounds correct. Had this thought as well. Problem being is that The nvidia

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-27 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:59, Edward Dekkers wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:18, Gerry Doris wrote: I'm still thinking is MUST be a permissions problem (root - yes, user - no, but what?) Yeah I see what you mean. All users other than root? Bret --

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-26 Thread David Hollister
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 19:28, Edward Dekkers wrote: After installing the NVIDIA drivers using the shell script, two things have happened. Firstly, the nvidia kernel module is not getting loaded automatically. I have to modprobe it before I can even use it. Anyone seen this before?

Re: nVidia Drivers

2003-07-25 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: Hey there, Here's a little before and after scenario: Before: Both end users and root could use X Windows by typing 'startx'. After: After installing the NVIDIA drivers using the shell script, two things have happened.

Re: nvidia drivers and rh7.3

2002-12-26 Thread Joe Giles
I belive the config file for 7.3 was XF86Config-4 file.. Look for that one and then you can edit it the same way. -- Joe Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: mcigiles --- Registered Linux User #264910 http://counter.li.org --- greg said: Hi, just out of interest (been using rh8.0 for the last

Re: nvidia drivers and rh7.3

2002-12-26 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 December 2002 01:26 am, greg wrote: Hi, just out of interest (been using rh8.0 for the last four or five months now- can't remember the last time I booted into windows!) I decided to download the iso's for 7.3 to see what the previous

Re: Nvidia Drivers

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Dec 2002 14:45:08 -0500, Wes Reneau wrote: I've downloaded and rpm's that were suggested by running NVchooser.sh and installed thim as instruced. However, the kernmel RPM went off w/o a hitch but the NVIDIA_GLX-10-4191.i386.rpm would not

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-11-22 Thread greg
Thanks Matthew, and others. I will use your guide here Matthew when I have a chance in the next couple of days, and let you know how I went. thanks Greg On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 03:47, MET wrote: To setup the drivers in i686 do this (it is best to rebuild them as their built for i386 machines.

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Will Mc Donald
Download and run nvchooser.sh and it'll tell you which RPMs you need. I suspect you'll need to install the appropriate kernel headers and compile the src.rpm to get it working. While trying to get my onboard video working I found a few useful resources on the subject...

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Rick Johnson
No - you need to grab the source (or source RPM) and build it for Red Hat 8.0 (not as important w/ the GLX module, but very important w/ the Kernel module). -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key:

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-11-21 Thread MET
To setup the drivers in i686 do this (it is best to rebuild them as their built for i386 machines. This will make them run better on yours). You shouldn't* need to logout of X to install them, but you will need to reboot X to make your system use them. Attached is my copy of the XF86Config file

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-05 Thread Scott Sharkey
I found the page -- searching for linux drivers sends you to an older version. -Scott On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:45:07 -0700 Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharkey, Scott wrote: Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-03 Thread Sharkey, Scott
Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no RH 7.3 there. -Scott -Original Message- From: BG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: nvidia drivers Quite the contrary

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-03 Thread Sharkey, Scott
: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 11:23 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: nvidia drivers Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no RH 7.3 there. -Scott -Original Message- From: BG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-03 Thread Gerry Doris
Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no RH 7.3 there. -Scott If you have updated your kernel then you need to do the following: 1. make sure you have installed the kernel source files matching the kernel you're running 2.

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-03 Thread Rick Forrister
Sharkey, Scott wrote: Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no RH 7.3 there. Scott, try http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux rickf -- If you are successfull they'll beat a path to your doorstep ... Picket signs

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-02 Thread Mike Martin
made some progress with this Few problems Having great problems getting agp working, either with nvidia or nv drivers AGPGART crashes machine, and NVagp just does not seem to work How do I get gpm and nvidia to co-exist nicely, I do a lot of compiling on VTs while X is running Lastly, using

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
I've heard good things about the nvidia cards. From the rhcl, it looks like only the gforce2 will work. Is this correct? If not, which more recent cards will work well? Thanks, Mark On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, BG wrote: Drivers are available as RPMs on the NVIDIA website. I downloaded them,

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: I've heard good things about the nvidia cards. From the rhcl, it looks like only the gforce2 will work. Is this correct? If not, which more recent cards will work well? go to www.nvidia.com, look for linux drivers. there should be a short note

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread kevin ferguson
Hi m8 I'm using a ge-force 2 mx 400 works great, not sure about the other range thou. Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: I've heard good things about the nvidia cards. From the rhcl, it looks like only the gforce2 will work. Is this correct? If not,

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Rick Forrister
kevin ferguson wrote: Hi m8 I'm using a ge-force 2 mx 400 works great, not sure about the other range thou. Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: I've heard good things about the nvidia cards. From the rhcl, it looks like only the gforce2 will

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread BG
disk drive to an existing system is more work than installing an Nvidia card and software. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Forrister Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nvidia drivers kevin

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Rick Forrister
BG wrote: Quite the contrary, Rickf. With the use of the Nvidia drivers OpenGL and other graphics tools are available. OpenGL is not available with the Nvidia cards when using the RH boxed driver. Please re-read what I wrote below. It clearly states that I believe the basic nv driver

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread BG
willygilly@attbi.com Subject: Re: nvidia drivers BG wrote: Quite the contrary, Rickf. With the use of the Nvidia drivers OpenGL and other graphics tools are available. OpenGL is not available with the Nvidia cards when using the RH boxed driver. Please re-read what I wrote below

RE: nvidia drivers

2002-06-29 Thread BG
Drivers are available as RPMs on the NVIDIA website. I downloaded them, installed them and set the following variables in the X config file: Change: Driver nv to Driver nvidia make sure the config file contains: Load glx remove: Load dri Load GLcore The drivers work great and I get all the