Hi Johnny,
I had major greif with the new drivers from nvidia. Go back to the previous ones as these new drivers appear to be crufty. They ate my box, it just started to lock hard every hour or so (LIKE WINDOZE MAN)!! ;-(
cya, Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Stork
To: CLUG
Sent: 12/12/02 3:07 PM
Subject: (clug-talk) Anyone install the latest NVIDIA drivers? $$
Just tried to install the latest NVIDIA drives on RH 8 with a GeForce 2
MX but no GLX? Here is my post to the NVIDIA Linux forum.
Just downloaded and installed to a RH 80 machine, Althon 1400, Asus
V7100, GeForce 2 MX card.
from console, no X, I ran
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel.-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX.1.0-4191.i386rpm
So far so good.
Changed XF86Config (no XF86Config-4) to use "nvidia" instead of "nv"
commented out "load dri"
X will start but clearly no GLX. Tux fails with
"couldnt find matching GLX visual"
and glxinfo gives
"couldnt find RGB GLX visual"
Any help would really be appreciated and heres my XF86Config.
# File generated by anaconda.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
#Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant" ""
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
#
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 31-115
VertRefresh 50-160
Option "dpms"
# 1800x1440 @ 64Hz, 96.15 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1800X1440" 230 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync
+VSync
# 1800x1440 @ 70Hz, 104.52 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1800X1440" 250 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync
+VSync
EndSection
Section "Device"
# no known options
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
#Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
#BusID
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 15
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1800X1440" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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