papaschtroumpf Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 (edited) I just got a Hercules GeForce 2 Ultra and added it to my machine. Upon booting, mandrake properly detected that I have changed the card from my old ATI and asked me if I wanted to install it. I said yes and it looks like a bunch of stuff with nvidia in it got installed. It looks like a new kernel with nvidia compiled in was added (?) as well as NVIDA_glx libraries. I try to test the setup but it told me it couldn't and to change some "options". I selected "quit" it finished boot and presented me with a command prompt (instead of booting in KDE) and I used that to reboot (shutdown -r now as root) This time the boot was successful and I see the NVIDA log flash before KDE starts up. KDE appear to be working just fine. If I try to run glxgears (as root) the screen goes blank (black) then I see the NVIDIA log and KDE restarts. I went into my XFree86Config-4 files and the relevant sections are here: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" EndSection I highlighted in bold the only the differences between my file and the example given in the FAQ on this forum. Any idea? I'm way out of my league here. Thanks my monitor is a TFT500 LCD panel 1024x768 if it matters. Edited June 25, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 I would change "nv" to "nvidia" Here's what my XFree86Config-4 has: Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 oops, sorry typo (I typed the stuff in, it's not cut and paste) it was already set to "nvidia" not "nv" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 (edited) more info: rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA returns: NVIDIA_Kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-5336-6mdk NVIDIA_GLX-5336-6mdk should I have anything else installed? This is the end of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 4X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 7 Edited June 25, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 really don't know... maybe try commenting this line out # Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" it seems to be extra anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 (edited) the version of libglx.so (a link) appears to match the 5336 number. I sure wish this kind of things worked out of the box... Maybe it's time to use the nvidia script instead. Do I need to clean up anything before I do? Edited June 25, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 There should be a file in there with this name, libglx.so.1.0.5336 which I imagine should of been installed when you installed the nvidia driver. The "libglx.so" file is only a link to the file mentioned above. I never installed any NVIDIA rpms. I checked my setup and don't get anything back with the rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA command. I used the file found at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...2_1.0-5336.html and followed those instructions. Another thing... I try to test the setup but it told me it couldn't and to change some "options". I believe you need to get a successful test before expecting it to work. You probably have more working than you should have at this point. :lol: Just noticed... No, the script will clean out the old stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 yeah, I understand about libgls.so being a link and nothing looked amiss there. I used the NVIDIA install script and it rebuilt the drive and everything is fine now. My kernel is stock Mandrake so it should have worked through Mandrake updates. Bah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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