Which model of Nvidia card do you have ? I have a VantaLT and it is working fine in mdk8.1 after I installed the rpms I got from Nvidia's website. I also made some changes in XFconfig-4 to make it work properly, but there is something to be noticed, the accelerated driver only works under kernel 2.4.8-26, the one that comes with mdk8.1. When I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.8-34, the accelerated driver stopped working, then I couldn't start X anymore. I had to use nv again ..... Actually after some minutes i decided to use the old kernel again ... : ) Also I tried to compile the driver under the updated kernel but all I got was an error message, I didn't manage to make it be compiled ... : ( Well, that is all I know, hope I have helped you. Good luck,
Rodrigo Terry S. wrote: >All, > >Thanks to everyone who responded to my dilema of trying to get the >NVIDIA_kernel RPM for my LM 8.1 system. I did as everyone suggested and >downloaded, rebuilt, and instlled the source RPM. Things seemed to go well >as the packages installed, with only the customary warnings that NVIDIA >warns you about when installing the packages. I made the necessary changes >in my /etc/X11/XFconfig-4 (i think that's what it's called, i'm not at my >linux box) as suggested by NVIDIA's website, and then rebooted. Things >booted up just fine, but as soon as X started up and showed the KDM login >screen, the machine completely locked up, forcing to press the reset button >to get out of it. Anyone have any more suggestions on how to remedy this >situation? I've looked the the Xserver logs, and nothing seems out of the >ordinary. It shows that the NVIDIA kernel, the NVdriver, and even the glx >libraries loading ok (at least it doesn't show any errors about loading >them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly? > >Thanks! > >Terry > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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