The easy way is to go into the Mandrake Control Centre, click Boot then Drakboot. Uncheck the box next to "Launch the graphicl environment when your system starts". Then rebot, and you'll be in runlevel 3, i.e. no GUI, just a command prompt. From there, install your new drivers and do anything else you need, then type-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On Monday 01 September 2003 20:13, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 11:04 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 16:49, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:02:35 +0100
Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but it's lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, I don't really know where to look, but as a first try how's this for a video card, and a X setup?
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "GeForce2 Ti"
Driver "nv"
You are using the default nv driver supplied by XFree86. This does not supply 3d hardware acceleration for the nvidia cards.
The only way you will be able to achieve 3d accel is by using the
proprietary NVIDIA driver.
The latest driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
and is available from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496
yep. That's done it, up to 75fps now. Many thanks both of you. Now if only I can avoid getting fragged for a couple of minutes...
I'm running 9.1 with the default driver, so I also need to do that.I ran through it no problem. You do need to do it with X stopped:
#lspcidrake Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 Geforce2 MX/MX 400
The instructions say the latest driver will work with XFree version
4.0.1 or greater.
How can I know which verson I have ?
Is the install as simple as rpm -Uvh driver ? Does it have any
dependencies ? I fear that something will go wrong and I won't be
able to run X...
ctrl-Alt-F2, login as root and "telinit 3". Run the script and then
read the README and edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to suit the new
driver; (one line to change, one line to comment out.) Before you can
get back to the GUI. But if that all makes sense then it's dead easy.
Ok, I downloaded it, but it seems I have to study more about telinit3 and telinit 5. How can I change them ?
startx
to get your GUI back. If it's all working correctly, go back into Drakboot and check the box again.
Sir Robin
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