On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:38 am, s escribi�:
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:31 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > If you are using LM 8.0 and haven't upgraded the kernel from
> > 2.4.3-20mdk, I suspect you'll have some luck with them. I'm using a
> > 2.4.8-18 kernel and d/l'd and rebuilt nVidia's src.rpms to fit my
> > system. 2d works, 3d accel doesn't. Even 'gears' won't start. I've
> > gone back to the open source drivers Mandrake ships with. 2d is
> > 'clearer' with the open source drivers than any of nVidia's closed
> > source drivers, including the 1512's.
>
> Have you tried the tarballs?
> -s
That's what I tried first. Altho I know they're only tar.gz
wrappers around precompiled closed source secret binaries. Part of the
problem, besides having a kernel version that nVidia didn't use, is I
also have upgraded glibc, among other things, to newer versions.
The src.rpm's are nothin more than the same thing as the tarball's,
but are made to be more distro compatible than the tarballs.
The nvidia src.rpms rebuilt without a hitch and produced
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1512.i686.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1512.i686.rpm
both of which installed with no problem. I keep two versions of
XF86Config-4 in /et/X11. I switched to the one appropriate for the
nvidia drivers, checked it against nvidia's current README, and
restarted. X came up fine, but no 3d accel.
I didn't fool with it any further. I really don't like using
closed source binaries, and I don't need 3d accel with Linux. AND
since 2d is better and a touch faster with the Linux developed open
source drivers, I switched XF86Config-4 back to the open source version.
I wasn't surprised by any of this, I didn't expect nvidia's closed
source drivers to run properly on anything but a system similar (ie,
kernel, gcc, glibc, etc) than what nVidia used to make 'em. I just
tried 'em out'a curiosity. I was surprised that nVidia used a 2.4.3
kernel, since 8.0's had a MandrakeUpdate for security and bug fix
reasons to 2.4.7 for some time now.
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