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From: Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbies] NVIDIA GeForce4 Date: 11 Feb 2003 21:17:14 -0700
With all this talk about NVIDIA, I thought I would pose a question. I've started using the custom redhat athlon kernel for my machine. I have an NVIDIA Geforce2 MX 400 or something like that (it has 64 mb DDR if that matters). I have tried rebuilding the source rpms but I always run into weird problems after I install the rpms and restart X. I follow the readme and all that and comment out the dri and GLcore lines, etc. However, when X restarts with the new drivers, all of the sudden I'm putting a pretty dang good load on my system. I can't drag windows around without some serious lag and if I'm playing an mp3, it will stop decoding the mp3. When I try to minimize windows, the effect looks terribly choppy and it slows down the system. I don't think this should be happening but I cannot diagnose the problem. Any ideas? -Glen On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:02, David Smith wrote: > You will want the Linux IA32 drivers. Here's a tip on installing the > Nvidia driver: > > 1. Download the source rpm (.src.rpm) and NOT the actually RPM that > matches your version of Linux. > 2. Make sure you have rpm-build installed (atp-get install rpm-build)*. > 3. cd into the folder where you downloaded the two .src.rpm files (One's > called Kernel, and the other is called GLX). > 3. Then, do this: rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm > 4. That creates two RPMS in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ Go there and do > this: rpm -Uvh NV*rpm > That will install the RPMs. > > Then, be sure to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and replace "nv" with > "nvidia" and comment out the two lines that the readme tells you to (I > think dri and something else). Restart X and log back in and welcome to > your 3D accelerated desktop. > > Let us know if you get stuck. > > Good luck! > > --Dave > > * If you don't have apt installed, go here: http://uug.byu.edu/apt.php > > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 19:01, Jared Roberts wrote: > > I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 TI 4200 graphics card and I > > just installed RedHat 8.0. I went to the NVIDIA > > website to download the right drivers but it asks what > > version of Linux I have: > > > > Linux IA32 > > Linux IA 64 > > Linux AMD54 > > FreeBSD > > > > Which one would I use and what is the difference? What > > do they mean? > > > > Thanks, > > Jared > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > newbies mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies -- Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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