Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Patrick, I used the Nvidia rpms for 9.1 of textar (www.pclinuxonline.com) and dri is runing fine without any further XF86Config-4 change. El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 01:18, Patrick Mayer escribió: Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Frederic Soulier
The easiest way is to get both SRC RPMS from nvidia web site then rebuild them (as per indicated in doc) then install them (kernel rpm first then GLX rpm). Then edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and replace (in the device section) nv by nvidia and double check you have load glx in the module section (it

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:10 am, Frederic Soulier wrote: Note: Most likely Fast Write and SBA Side Band Addressing will are disabled. check cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status If someone knows how to activate those by default please let me know. /Fred Fred, I've not tried it but aren't

[expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-28 Thread Patrick Mayer
Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in the process but still managed to get it done properly. 1st roadblock: Sound did not seem to work in KDE. Solution: ALSA does not work on my machine for some reason. This is odd since everything was OK in

Re: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 4191 and Geforce Ti500

2003-02-09 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Steffen, just came accross a forum-Entry that states the Problems you describe have disappeared after the Dude upgraded his Graphic-Card BIOS. You might try it out. Could fix your problem. Cheers Joerg Steffen Barszus wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 13:24, Joerg Mertin wrote: [...]

[expert] Nvidia Drivers 4191 and Geforce Ti500

2003-02-08 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, I having here quite an issue with the Setup and the 4191-Drivers Serie. Now - the 3123-Drivers do work without a Problem. Here is a little Explanation on the Problem: If I configure the 4191 - I happened to get the X-Windows running only once - but I don know why it worked. Usually I

Re: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 4191 and Geforce Ti500

2003-02-08 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Saturday 08 February 2003 13:24, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Folks, I having here quite an issue with the Setup and the 4191-Drivers Serie. Now - the 3123-Drivers do work without a Problem. Here is a little Explanation on the Problem: If I configure the 4191 - I happened to get the X-Windows

Re: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 4191 and Geforce Ti500

2003-02-08 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Steffen, I do belong to those who actually RTFM before sending help-request. Even the NVidia forums do have this problem. It seems - the 4191-Series drivers have not been tested enough - and produce this kind of beheaviour quite often. Most of the User running these under Linux got back to

Re: [expert] Nvidia Drivers + 9.1beta = excellent

2003-01-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 13 January 2003 03:13, Chuck Burns wrote: After all my reported problems with 4191 NV drivers, and Mdk 9.0, under both KDE and Gnome, I can now happily report a significant 2D speed improvement, and don't need to run glxinfo continuously. KDE3.1 is super-quick using the nvidia

[expert] Nvidia Drivers + 9.1beta = excellent

2003-01-12 Thread Chuck Burns
After all my reported problems with 4191 NV drivers, and Mdk 9.0, under both KDE and Gnome, I can now happily report a significant 2D speed improvement, and don't need to run glxinfo continuously. KDE3.1 is super-quick using the nvidia drivers.. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0 - nvidia XawTV

2002-12-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Seg 09 Dez 2002 12:49, Barry Michels wrote: Works perfectly! I've installed my TV board after installing the nvidia drivers! rgs Ricardo Anyone have trouble with XawTV after installing the nvidia drivers? I had XawTV 3.80 running when I decided to switch from the nv driver to nvidia.

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0

2002-12-09 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:10:23PM +0100 : Sometime ago I asked on this list if somebody had tried installing the NVidia drivers for MD 8.2 in MD 9.0 and I got responses saying it worked fine. I did No, that will not

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0

2002-12-09 Thread Lorne
Perhaps you are confusing the term driver? I am speaking of the source from Nvidia. I was unable to compile the newest Nvidia driver for Mandrake and then have it work. It failed. I then went and got the next older Nvidia driver, compiled it and it runs just fine. My thoughts are that there is

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0 - nvidia XawTV

2002-12-09 Thread Lorne
grabber device available - Original Message - From: Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0 On Monday 09 December 2002 15:03, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 08 December 2002

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0 - nvidia XawTV

2002-12-09 Thread Barry Michels
I tried going back to 2960 and 2880 (I was at 3123), but still the same error. I guess I'll re-install Linux again to get rid of the NVdriver module and go back to the nv driver. (anyone know how to do this without re-installing?) It worked for watching TV, but not for capturing. What I

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Jeremy Mereness
If you decide to go for the NVidia drivers from NVidia, do you I need to EXPECT to recompile openGL stuff like xscreensaver ('cause they never work from the mdk RPM's with the 3rd party driver running)? Should you NOT install Mesa and Mesa-demos at all if you intend to use NVidia drivers? --

[expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread joe
Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2. The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some reviously pretty ugly experiences. This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too recklessly. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:24:41 -0800 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2. The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some reviously pretty ugly experiences. This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too

RE: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0

2001-07-16 Thread Al Baker
Durham Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0 Has anyone had success getting the Nvidia drivers (from www.nvidia.com) to work with XFree86 4.1.0? If I start X with nvidia as the driver (instead of nv) it starts

Re: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0

2001-07-15 Thread Davy Durham
Aw man Any idea why or if it will ever work... is it Nvidia's, XFree86's or the kernel's job to fix? I guess I'll downgrade for now... Thanks again, -- Davy Jose M. Sanchez wrote: The Nvidia drivers will not start up with the 2.4.6 kernel... :-( You do need to perform a full power

RE: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0

2001-07-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
kernel though! -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Davy Durham Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0 Has anyone had success getting the Nvidia drivers (from

[expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0

2001-07-14 Thread Davy Durham
Has anyone had success getting the Nvidia drivers (from www.nvidia.com) to work with XFree86 4.1.0? If I start X with nvidia as the driver (instead of nv) it starts to work, but then blacks out and I have to hit reset... no keys respond... Thanks... -- Davy

[expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel

2001-06-17 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi guys, I am asking this again.. How do I get the nvidia drivers for the enterprise kernel? I am in such a mess here : To get 1.5GB recognized, I had to install the enterprise kernel.. now the nvidia drivers don't install in this kernel.. they give lots of unresolved symbols. I cannot even

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel

2001-06-17 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
instead of using the RPM or src.RPM, have you tried the TAR files? I had some dificulties until I tried the package and now everything is ok... Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi guys, I am asking this again.. How do I get the nvidia drivers for the enterprise kernel? I am in such a mess here : To

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Simon Naish
: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 02:23:41 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel Can anybody tell me how to get nvidia drivers running under the enterprise kernel? -Installing RPMs (both UP and SMP) give tons of unresolved symbols

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-02 Thread Simon Naish
PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:26:44 +0200 To: Simon Naish [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL On Friday 01 June 2001 10:27, Simon Naish wrote: Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on my machine

[expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-01 Thread Simon Naish
Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on my machine. All went well, I installed from tar zips made the Kernel driver and the OpenGL lib no problem. Sat back astonished at the positively outrageous speed of gltron and the ultra smooth spectacle of tuxracer. 8^)

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-01 Thread Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 10:27, Simon Naish wrote: Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on my machine. All went well, I installed from tar zips made the Kernel driver and the OpenGL lib no problem. Sat back astonished at the positively outrageous speed of

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:26 am, Civileme wrote: Interesting. I think I'm going to switch to runlevel 5. Anyone else notice how fonts look bigger (= better, I think), with the 1.x driver than with the 0.9x driver? -- Stephen Which NVIDIA drivers? The 1.0 version seem to segfault if you

[expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-02-18 Thread Franki
Hi all,, Has anyone had actual luck gettin the nvidea drivers working,,?? I have tried numerous times and no luck, I always get unresolved messages... Tried rebuilding the src rpm, and that works, but still doesnt' work when the binarys are installed... I even tried the binary for MDK 7.1 and

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I never had a problem compiling the packages. I've used the tar.gz sources and it always compiled without a problem. the only problem I'm having with 0.9-6 is that after removing (renaming) some original messa libraries, the same that I renamed with 0.9-5, every time I run 'ldconfig' (or

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-02-18 Thread Digital Wokan
Yes. I have. Though at times, I'm not exactly sure how I managed it. And it actually works better from the tarballs, not src rpms. Though I think I did it the sencond time from those after upgrading XF4.0.1 to XF4.0.2. You'll find a great set of instructions on how to do this at

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel Woods
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's

[expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-25 Thread David Boles
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's drivers

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Yevchak
First off, I think you mean 0.9-6. As for DPMS not working it works with 0.9-5. In the XF86Config-4 file under the section "Device" for your video card there should be the following line: Option "DPMS" Mine is after the line that contains: Driver "nvidia" Richard On Thursday 25

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-20 Thread Cecil Watson
I am currently using their last set of drivers from tarballs and they work fine. I would strongly recommend that you just use the source tarballs, the RPMs caused all kinds of problems for me. I second that notion. You can find directions here:

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
Cecil Watson wrote: I am currently using their last set of drivers from tarballs and they work fine. I would strongly recommend that you just use the source tarballs, the RPMs caused all kinds of problems for me. I second that notion. You can find directions here:

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-20 Thread Digital Wokan
nVidia still has that stupid non-redistrbution agreement (which would look more appropriate on the nearest dung heap). But is there anything to prevent creating the Mandrake i586.rpm file for them and then submitting it back to them. Having a 7.2 rpm ready to go would be a big boost to the

[expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
Nvidia's page: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html has new drivers (Jan. 18). However they list only drivers for Mandrake 7.1: Mandrake 7.1, one CPU, uniprocessor kernel: NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.mdk71.i386.rpm

Fwd: Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread salane
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:00:35 -0500 From: salane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jerry L. Kazdan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] get the stock ones with file ending in.src.rpm issue c

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread Anthony Russello
I am currently using their last set of drivers from tarballs and they work fine. I would strongly recommend that you just use the source tarballs, the RPMs caused all kinds of problems for me. Cheers Nvidia's page: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html has new

[expert] Nvidia drivers not loading X

2000-12-11 Thread Jarabe De Palo
Can somone please tell me if i need to update both the XF86Config and the XF86Config-4 files to make X work right. and also i you could send me some ideas. I have tried all what it says at http://www.realityx.net/nvidia.html, i also ran the nv_check.sh, it helped me find the conflicting

[expert] Nvidia drivers not loading X

2000-12-11 Thread Jarabe De Palo
Can somone please tell me if i need to update both the XF86Config and the XF86Config-4 files to make X work right. and also i you could send me some ideas. I have tried all what it says at http://www.realityx.net/nvidia.html, i also ran the nv_check.sh, it helped me find the conflicting

[expert] Nvidia drivers not loading X

2000-12-11 Thread Jarabe De Palo
Can somone please tell me if i need to update both the XF86Config and the XF86Config-4 files to make X work right. and also i you could send me some ideas. I have tried all what it says at http://www.realityx.net/nvidia.html, i also ran the nv_check.sh, it helped me find the conflicting

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers not loading X

2000-12-11 Thread Salane
XF86Config-4 is the correct one to change Salane On Monday 11 December 2000 01:12 pm, you wrote: Can somone please tell me if i need to update both the XF86Config and the XF86Config-4 files to make X work right. and also i you could send me some ideas. I have tried all what it says at

Re: [expert] nVidia drivers on Asus A7V mb

2000-11-25 Thread mark
On Friday 24 November 2000 22:43, you wrote: My Geforce would freeze in Q3 after a few minutes until I disabled power management on my MB. Checkout http://www.geforcefaq.com for tons of trouble shooting tips. the above link did not work i'll try again later, I should note that in my case

Re: [expert] nVidia drivers on Asus A7V mb

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Woods
I have now been working on the installation of the nVidia drivers for XFree86-4.0.1 for a week. And I believe, I am close to have it made working. BUT: First my system: Athlon (Thunderbird) 800Mhz on Asus AV7 (KT133 based) 380 MB RAM WinFast Geforce 256 DDR graphics

Re: [expert] nVidia drivers on Asus A7V mb

2000-11-24 Thread mark
On Friday 24 November 2000 14:00, you wrote: I have now been working on the installation of the nVidia drivers for XFree86-4.0.1 for a week. And I believe, I am close to have it made working. BUT: First my system: Athlon (Thunderbird) 800Mhz on Asus AV7 (KT133 based) 380 MB RAM

[expert] nVidia drivers for XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-09 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
After reading at least 20-30 different mails about people having problems with installing the NVidia kernel drivers and modules and XFree 4.0.1 and repying to 2/3 of these, I've decided to put up a very brief HowTo on this. The howto is located at http://www.realityx.net/nvidia.html Ps. I