Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Ok conf.modules experts: How do I auto load the driver for the ov511 chip (common in webcams) for my Creative Webcam 3. Ath present I load is in rc.local with modprobe ov511 Note that this is a USB cam, if that affects anything. Buchan "J.A. Magallon" wrote: > > Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe: [

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installationÓ. [2000-10-17 15:36] > One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? > > rmmod agpgart > modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 > modprobe NVdriver > > I really have to learn how to have the computer do t

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles Curley am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:21:20AM -0600: > > Well, if you use startx, it's a shell script; you could add those commands > to it. Or /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is run toward the end of the boot > sequence. Or don't do anything but use the rpm files which will add alias c

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? > > rmmod agpgart > modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 > modprobe NVdriver > > I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... Well, if y

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... -- Stephen On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, an

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Darin am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:53:36PM -0400: >Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? Install XFree86 4.0.1. Get the src.rpms from NVidia. As root, do a rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-file-name and rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_glx-file-name. In /usr/src/

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, and the output of cat /proc/version, lsspci, rpm -qa | grep XFree, XF86Config-4, and anything more you think would be useful... I'll try to look at them... > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: > I tried all of this, and now UT cores when I try to start it. > If

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
I found the link very useful when using the NVidia drivers for my geforce2: http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html It's written for debian, but works for mandrake if you keep in mind that debian uses different directories for their libraries. You did remove the Mesa libraries m

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread Darin
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Passes: > - Get XF401 working with "nv" driver. > - Decide if you want to try AGP access with nVidia's propietary AGP > or with kernel AGP GART. Configure your kernel and build it. > AFTER that, build NVdriver kernel module. Its build depends on > gart be

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:53:36 Darin wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running under LM 7.2 RC1 but I'm having > a few problems. > >Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? > The instructions on the nVidia site are cryptic at best. All I ca

[expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread Darin
Hi, I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running under LM 7.2 RC1 but I'm having a few problems. Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? The instructions on the nVidia site are cryptic at best. All I can get now is my monitor going into oversync when start