-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: > Hello list > > Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is > about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. > > In fact, I wanted to try at first the Medal of Honor linux beta > client, and got an awfully slow rendering speed with missing > textures. I then remembered that after upgrading to 9.1 I never > installed the Nvidia drivers. > I tried it, but, damned !, it wasn't as easy... I did it succesfully > before with the kernel & glx modules, but with the new .run system > I'm lost. > I'm using 9.1, and I did not compile my own kernel. So my system > should be quite "standard" for Nvidia... I downloaded the latest .run > archive and ran it. > It doesn't work, and after trying different settings, the fact is > that starting X with the 'Driver "nvidia"' setting in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 leads me to some kind of kernel panic: > CTRL-ALT-SUP not working, Verr Num and Caps Lock keyboard leds not > responding. > It's late, I'm tired and my english is as bad as my brain for now, > but any clue, advice or good direction would be very welcomed. > It may be a newbie question, sorry... I'm more experienced with > networking than in X configuration ;-) > > Regards, anybody > > Fran�ois
If you ran the NVidia installer while running X you'll have trouble. If you ran it as user you'll have trouble. If you install a new kernel after running it you have to run it against the running (new usually) kernel for it to actually work. The last time I had to help someone with this was a system I assembled for a friend. Dual AMD MP 2000+, 1024 MB DDR-RAM and an MSI G-Force 4 MX 440 128 MB graphics card. The NVidia installer complained about finding no kernel module or some such, I allowed it to build one. Edited the XF86config4 file to use the nvidia drivers instead of the default nv and it was good to go. There's one little "gotcha" in all of the above though. You have to install the kernel source for the kernel you're running *first!* That should take care of that. Whenever you upgrade the kernel install the source for the new one, boot the new kernel in run-level 3 (console) and run the NVidia run file again. You can then edit lilo to start in graphical mode again. It should always work that way. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 16:04:35 up 16:00, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.62, 0.41 #define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255) #define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) \ - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) \ - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111)) - -- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/X6JnG11CaRuZZSIRAsjCAJ4y/3XgBdtAA86R8mxGFTfC5wR9egCePgsQ 85SaFhgiHCCQCO3Dsf8UrXs= =w7kP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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