New nvidia driver - Release Date: December 11, 2002

[aze]

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_di...y_ia32_1.0-4191

have fun :D

[ral]

Think I will wait a bit. I appreicate Nvidia strong commitment...but am happy with the 3123's.

[Guest joehill]

go to pclinuxonline, in the forums there are some posts about problems with these drivers. the problems are related to specific configurations and possibly to certain packages, you might want to check this out to avoid unnecessary trouble.

[aze]

So I'll follow you guys

How do I unistall it? Please, refer to post http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=1593

Thanks a lot guys!

[bvc]

From init 3 (runlevel 3), su as root and

urpme NVIDIA

 

http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php

[aze]

Hi!

I'm confused!

How do I know wich driver is installed?

Now, I having problems with apps (like xmms) wich uses GL. The error:

 

$ soundwrapper xmms

Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions

are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps

to correct.

 

What should I install first? GLX or KERNEL?

thank you!

[Ixthusdan]

Kernel should be installed, then the glx.

[bvc]

How do I know wich driver is installed?

[bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123

[bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX   

NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123

 

 

 

Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions

are too resticitive.

When you get that, do what it says :wink:

 

Q: OpenGL applications exit with the following error message:

 

        Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions

        are too restrictive.  Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

        section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps

        to correct.

 

A: It is likely that a security module for the PAM system may be

changing the permissions on the NVIDIA device files.  In most cases

this security system works, but it can get confused.  To correct this

problem it is recommended that you disable this security feature.

Different Linux distributions have different files to control this;

if your system has the file

        /etc/security/console.perms

then you want to edit the file and remove the line that starts with

"<dri>".  If instead your system has the file

        /etc/logindevperms

then you want to edit the file and remove the line that lists

/dev/nvidiactl.  The above steps will prevent the PAM security

system from modifying the permissions on the NVIDIA device files.

Next, you will need to reset the permissions on the device files

back to their original permissions and owner.  You can do that with

the following commands:

     

chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* 

chown root /dev/nvidia*

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...2960/README.txt

 

What should I install first? GLX or KERNEL?

 

thank you!

If you use urpmi (install) and urpme (uninstall) neither :wink: As shown in DOlson's tut (link above), from the dir the drivers are in put the * at the end.

urpmi NVIDIA*

 

Also in DOlsons tut, from the dir the .src.rpm's are in.

rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA*

will rebuild both with 1 command :wink:

 

man urpmi

man urpmf

man rpm

man rpmbuild

ect....