On Saturday 18 August 2001 06:40 pm, you wrote: > Please help a TOTAL newbie. > I just got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64mb AGP graphics card and I am having > trouble getting it to function properly. Here are my specifics: > LM 8.0 > SMP Kernel > Super Micro PIIIDME motherboard > Dual PIII 650's > 384 M RAM > Philips 107s 17" monitor > > Can someone give me a walkthru???? > > Thank you for your assistance!!! > > Andy Flatt > > ___ Download the tarballs for your system. Assuming the smp version doesn't require anything special: 1. Log out to the console. su to root. 2. cd <to_where_the_tarballs_are> (ex: cd /home/s/Archives/) 3. tar -zxvf <the_file's_name.tar.gz> (ex: tar -zxvf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.tar.gz) 4. tar -zxvf <the_glx.tar.gz> 5. cd NVIDIA_kernel<whatever>-1.0-1251/ 6. make (and wait) 7. s 8. cd NVIDIA_GLX<whatever>-1.0-1251/ 9. make (wait) 10. vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 11. type: a (changes to insert mode) 12. Scroll down to modules section and add: Load "glx" (under Load "dbe") 13. Scroll down to Graphics device section and change "nv" to "nvidia" 14. type: <esc> :wq (that's the escape button, then a colon, w, q) 15. type: exit 16. as user, type: startx -s
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