To the original poster, Fran�ois, and to Charlie. There is a lot of confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I have posted about this issue more than once but here it goes again. If your Geforce4 MX 440, or any other video board, i.e. Radeon, is using AGP 8X then you are using AGP 3.0, and are no longer using AGP 2.0. AGP 3.0 is *NOT* supported in any 2.4.x kernel that I know of. There are some patches out there but most of these are made to support 8X Radeon cards (and are buggy at best). I have the Geforce4 MX 440 8X, and I was able to compile the Nvidia drivers, and I did get them to load but AGPGART would not work for the reasons outlined above. I had graphics but color rendering was for shit. It seems the only solution to 8X AGP 3.0 support is to wait for kernel 2.5. (at least, I hear it will support this newer AGP version). The pivotal point is are you trying to load modules for 8X AGP 3.0?-----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.
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
Does anyone know the final kernel version in LMDK9.2? Now does the foregoing elucidate or obfuscate this issue even more?
drjung
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