the nvidia README is rather helpful...it got me through setting the nvidia drivers up just fine when i started using linux.
two basic things you need to do is modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config and in the modules section add: Load "glx" and remove : Load "dri" Also, in the Device section that has your video card in it, change the driver to "nvidia" instead of the standard 'vesa' or 'nv'. that should get you going anyhow...you should be able to fine tune from there. Brendan On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:08, Stroller wrote: > Hello, folks, > > Thanks for all the input on graphics cards last week.... can anyone now > give me some pointers towards what I should be doing to get my nVidia > GF3 running optimally..? > > I've already emerged KDE & (of course) Xfree last week (when I still > had my Matrox card), however I haven't configured them yet, as getting > the framebuffer working was more interesting. > > I am running the 2.6.2 gentoo-development-sources kernel & have emerged > the nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r1 ebuild, but I don't really know what to > do with that. A Google or a search on the forums for "nVidia Gentoo > 2.6" brings many many results, but I haven't found anything like a > simple HOWTO for idiots like me. Can anyone point me at one..? > > The UT2003 LiveCD boots & plays on this system, so ideally I want to > set things up "just like that", except with a 2.6 kernel. > > I'm gathering that the nVidia binary drivers come as a kernel module > which needs modprobing... is that what the nvidia-kernel ebuild has > given me..? > > Sorry for asking such dumb quuestions - I have attached some hopefully > useful output about my current configuration below. > > Stroller. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > $ fbset > mode "1024x768-76" > # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz > geometry 1024 768 1024 768 32 > timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 > rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24 > endmode > > $ dmesg | grep -ie nvidia -ie agp -ie vga -ie console -ie vesa > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x318 > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] > vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf8000000, mapped to 0xe080a000, size 16384k > vesafb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=1 > vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:b740 > vesafb: scrolling: redraw > vesafb: directcolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 > fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones > agpgart: Detected AMD 760MP chipset > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000 > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
