Just switch to runlevel 3 and launch the script.
Say that i want to compile and voila. And a few seconds later everything was ok (Geforce 4 Ti 4200).
No need to reboot. Just had to change the rights on /dev/nvdia0 and /dev/nvidiactl for my user for playing neverwinter night on Linux.
It seems to be faster and looks better. Maybe it was only my eyes that were tired yesterday ;-)
For me it is easier to install than before. Newbie will appreciate.
Olivier.
Edward Tandi wrote:
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 01:19, Francisco Alcaraz wrote:
I have had a lot of problem with this new release. One of the times I lost the 3d; the second try I get a switched off screen.
At the moment I have returned to textar Nvidia rpms.
Could anyone be so kind as to explain all the step to have it runing under 9.1?
OK, maybe you have the same problem I had when trying to install over the old driver. You have to run the tool at runlevel 3 ('init 3' text mode). You also have to unload the driver with 'rmmod nvidia', but I get the following error:
WARNING: insmod.old: I am not the old version!
Can't open 'nvidia': No such file or directory
So the only way to forcibly remove the module is to delete nvidia.o from /lib/modules/... with rm.
Then re-boot. Mandrake will fail to start up X. Then login as root on the console and run the tool. It should then install everything OK. Re-boot again (or restart gdm/kdm), and it should start X this time. My machine has been running fine with this new version.
You will also need gcc and the kernel source installed if you are using a custom kernel.
Ed-T.
Thansk so much in advance
El Lunes, 31 de Marzo de 2003 23:41, villin escribi�:
Hello,
it seems that nvidia is trying to make a step not to open source but to
update easily it's drivers under linux...
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349
I'll try them asap as my download is finished.
Olivier
