Hey guys, I have no idea where this thread starts or stops so I'll just top-post to piss Shanahan off ;). I did snip out the Lookout headers etc just for you though Patrick, so I am making an effort at cleaning up my newbie act, and I want no comments about how I left in the full thread so poor Anders could figure out what he already said!!! My experience with nVidia reads like this... One of my machines here is an ASUS A7A266 running an nVidia Geforce 2 MX400 and with this I have only had issues installing the driver under Fedora1. Step 1. If you aren't running an unstable kernel or your card is not too new for the driver somehow, just download the correct Linux driver from the nVidia web site. Step 2. Follow the readme directions on the nVidia site by going su in a terminal window and executing telinit 3 to drop out of X. Step 3. Navigate to the folder where you saved the rpm file and execute the syntax that the instructions on nVidia told you to run...something like rpm -i <filename> and sit back while the installer runs. 4. Assuming that the installer completes your kernel recompile without failing, then you can type SaX2 at the prompt and run SaX2 to walk through the steps to confirm that your monitor is correct, etc. And that 3D is set to enabled on the new driver. 5. Make sure to edit the nVidia AGP driver selection before saving the SaX2 configuration, as the correct driver will be named nvidia and not the generic nv that ships with all Linux distros. If the installer ran correctly SaX2 will be able to find the driver named nvidia although you may have to play around on the list just a bit. After saving the configuration then either type reboot at the command prompt, or telinit 5 to restart the X server. After freshly installing an entire video driver that recompiles the kernel, I personally like to reboot to ensure that everything is purged from memory, but this is primarily because I am a Windows weenie at heart. The alternative to SaX2 is to go in as root and open your XFree86 config file and look for the nv entry there and change it to nvidia. You can also fully read the manual configuration stuff on the nVidia web site readme and then do your tweaks manually also. After you finish, do a test run with TuxRacer and if he looks and runs smoothly and with sound then your driver is correct. Personally, I find SaX2 much easier than manual edits using kedit or whatever. Good Luck! -Sheldon
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03.56, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm probably missing a long discussion as I just subscribed to the list:
(I was out on an adventure trying different distros and broke my mail)
However, I'm kind of stuck on one element of the NVIDIA video card problem:
According to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvi dia-instal ler-H OWTO I should download kernel sources and the like to install the driver.
That didn't work at all.
Why not?
Did you download the correct kernel sources, the kernel-source.rpm corresponding to your kernel version? Did you prepare the
Anders Johansson wrote: sources with
cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep
before running the nvidia installer?
Then I hit the SuSE database and found another entry where you just manually select the fetchnvidia driver package and reboot (I never heard of rebooting a Linux box, but OK)
No need to reboot, it's just to save newbies the experience
of going
to text mode. The instructions are seriously confused. For example, some instructions say you should go to runlevel 3, while all that's really needed is to stop X. Oh well, all roads lead to Rome I guess
Now, how do I verify if I really do have 3D support?
glxinfo|grep "direct rendering"
It should say Yes
You may have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change Driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in the Device section
Everything you have here says it should work great.
glxinfo shows direct rendering. Some of the 3D games are definitely kicking butt.
Unfortunately I'm not sure what else I did. When I CTRL+ALT+F1 I am greeted with "OUT OF RANGE" on my monitor. This is bad, because it never did this before and if X fails I'm toast.
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