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acraigon — Mon May 16, 2005 1:55 pm

Author: acraigon

Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 1:55 pm

Thank you to all those who contributed. I have got my card working with debian from a combination of the replies. Now how do I get my serial modem working!

Re: NViidia Graphics

davecs — Fri May 13, 2005 9:39 pm

Author: davecs

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:39 pm

Another problem which may affect nvidia driver users with digital monitor connections:

HERE

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

Nobber — Fri May 13, 2005 5:04 pm

Author: Nobber

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:04 pm

Yes, in Debian (along with many of its derivatives, presumably) runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are all the same. Caught me out a couple of times, that has.

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

davecs — Fri May 13, 2005 12:27 pm

Author: davecs

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:27 pm

Oh dear it's happened again! I am forced to use Internet Exploder when at work, and it does not seem to save my Login details. Has the site been officially b0rked to stop autologin from Exploder?

Anyway the above post was mine, and I forgot to mention that should you type killall kdm from a terminal in an X window, you will be thrown back to a black-screen terminal and will have to log in.

It's just that I noticed that on the LiveCD of PCLinuxOS CTRL-ALT-F1 etc is disabled but for some reason is OK when installed. So I know it can be disabled!

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

Anonymous — Fri May 13, 2005 12:22 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:22 pm

towy71 wrote:

init 3 doesn't seem to work on my mepis laptop or on this machine which is why I posted

I always use "brute force".

Open a terminal as root. Or CTRL-ALT-F1 to a console and log in as root. (It is possible to disable CTRL-ALT-Fn in xorg.conf).

Then if you are using KDM (KDE's login manager) type:

killall kdm

(or gdm, xdm ,etc). Now edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and follow the instructions to install the nvidia drivers.

Now type

rmmod nvidia (to ensure any old, non working nvidia modules is removed)

modprobe nvidia

kdm

And your nvidia screen should spring into life!!

Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

acraigon — Fri May 13, 2005 10:35 am

Author: acraigon

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:35 am

Ram wrote:

What exactly is the card your using.

I am posting this from my server using a Creative Labs TNT2 32 meg Video Card without the need to install the latest drivers from NVidia.
OS is Simply Mepis based on non stable Debian I believe.

My main PC uses a CL Geforce 4 with SuSE 9.2 and the latest NVidia Drivers that YaST can install.

Personally I don't think you can buy better

Ram

NVidia GeForce MX 2

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

towy71 — Thu May 12, 2005 1:32 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:32 pm

this machine is:
dick@debianbox:~$ uname -a
Linux debianbox 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:29:52 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
dick@debianbox:~$

and I did try honest
sorree

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

nelz — Thu May 12, 2005 12:33 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:33 pm

Grrr

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

towy71 — Thu May 12, 2005 12:05 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:05 pm

init 3 doesn't seem to work on my mepis laptop or on this machine which is why I posted

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

nelz — Thu May 12, 2005 10:11 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:11 am

That's why I stuck with changing the runlevel, there are too many different init scripts, whereas init 3 works on just about everything, except Gentoo (where you would use /etc/init.d/xdm stop/start).

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

towy71 — Thu May 12, 2005 8:15 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:15 am

or Debian and derivitives: /etc.init.d/gdm stop and then /etc.init.d/gdm start
or xdm or kdm depending on which display manager you use

Re: RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

nelz — Thu May 12, 2005 12:56 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:56 am

hairymunky wrote:

edit /etc/inittab and make default runlevel '5'

reboot ... and hopefully you should get a logo for nVidia before the login manager...

You don't need to edit inittab or reboot. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a console, login as root and type "init 3" to shut down X. Then install the drivers as described and edit xorg.conf. Now type "init 5" to restart X. No messing with the boot process at all, this is Linux, not Windows.

RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

hairymunky — Wed May 11, 2005 11:08 pm

Author: hairymunky

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:08 pm

I've had no probs installing nVidia drivers for my FX5200.

Although Im running FC 3, I followed the guide here:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.shtml

The basics of installing the nvidia drivers should be the same, ...
i#> chmod +x nvidia.drivers

from the console (make sure X is NOT running), run the driver install program
#>./nvidia.driver.xxx.run (whatever the file is called)

After its finished, just edit your xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/

edit /etc/inittab and make default runlevel '5'

reboot ... and hopefully you should get a logo for nVidia before the login manager...

(PS Nvidia has a FAQ/help to aid in editing the xorg.conf file)
(Im sure you just comment out "dri" and "glcore", then change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" all without quotes)

Good luck
And Im well chuffed with the graphics and speed of my nvidia card, for �30 it kicks the ass of the radeon in my other machine!!

RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

Ram — Wed May 11, 2005 10:23 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:23 pm

What exactly is the card your using.

I am posting this from my server using a Creative Labs TNT2 32 meg Video Card without the need to install the latest drivers from NVidia.
OS is Simply Mepis based on non stable Debian I believe.

My main PC uses a CL Geforce 4 with SuSE 9.2 and the latest NVidia Drivers that YaST can install.

Personally I don't think you can buy better

Ram

RE: Re: RE: NViidia Graphics

nelz — Wed May 11, 2005 12:55 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:55 pm

You can tell which driver is in use by looking at the config file. The binary driver is called nvidia, the open source one that comes with XFree/XOrg is called nv.

The best program for testing 3D acceleration is tuxracer

The NVidia drivers are not included with Mandriva 2005, but they are in the System directory of the DVD, because the DVD contains a lot more than Mandriva.