banjo Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 I am trying to run Doom3 on my Mandy 9.1 and it will not run. The problem looks like a driver problem so I downloaded a newer Nvidia driver. The graphics card that I'm using is the GeForce 3 Ti200. When I installed the latest version of nVidia's unified graphics driver for Linux IA32 (version 6111) and restarted the computer, X11 wouldn't start. I got the error that the nVidia kernel was unable to initialize and that it aborted. So I removed the new driver and reinstalled the older one to get the system back up. The drivers that I had working before (that came with the Mandrake 9.1 distro) were version 4321 and were comprised of two rpms, the kernel and the GLX packages. When the 6111 driver was being installed, it asked if I wanted to delete the GLX rpm, and I said yes, though it didn't ask about the kernel rpm. Anybody know what I did wrong? The new driver is supposed to work with our kernel, which is 2.4.21-0.13mdk. What is necessary to install the newest nVidia drivers on Mandrake 9.1? Do I need to uninstall the two driver 4321 rpms first? Thanks in advance. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 If I remember correctly, you need to remove both of the old RPMs before you can install the new drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Thanks for the info. I will give that a try and see if it helps. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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