nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread Maury Merkin
Could someone please take me step-by-step through the process of installing the nVidia driver? I am currently using the SVGA driver with with it but the nVidia driver has to be much better. I have v4.0 of X installed. Do I have to re-compile a new kernel? (No problem I've done that many times,

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go read the readme and you should be fine. On Fri, Jun 29,

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread stevencooper
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:29:41AM -0600, ray p wrote: Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread ray p
I've never had to make install has *always* done the right thing for me. BTW hang on to those tarballs you will be using them many times again. Everytime certain libs update you will need to redo this. :) On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:44:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

2001-06-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
What worked for me, and I think is easier advice, is to # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src Then the kernel module will be built automatically with make-kpkg modules_image, giving you nvidia-kernel-kernel-ver-ver_arch.deb , which you can then dpkg -i. The glx module can be so