nVidia drivers

[Slagathor]

But, I have had nothing but issues trying to update nVidia drivers for my 5900XT.

nothing worked till I found this at nvnews.net.

 

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread...7608#post637608

 

 

Here is whats posted:

 

I have something that should get you up and running with the Nvidia drivers in Mandriva (and pretty much any mandrake version)

 

1. Open a terminal and switch to the root user. Edit /etc/inittab and change the init from 5 to 3 and save and close.

 

2. Go into the Mandrake Control Center and go to hardware. On the video card select the configure tab. Scroll down until you see xorg and look for the "nv" module and select it. Save and close.

 

3. Make sure you've already downloaded the latest NVIDIA driver from NVIDIA.

 

4. Log out, but don't reboot. When you log back on you will be using the nv driver. Open Mandrake control center and go to the uninstall part of the package manager. In the search box type kernel and hit the search button. You should see an nvidia-kernel.... package. Remove it. (Also, remove any other nvidia related packages)

 

5. Once you've removed the nvidia packages, reboot the system. The system will boot up to non-graphical mode.

 

6. Logon as root and switch to the directory where you saved the NVIDIA driver. Type chmod a+x NVIDIA*. This will make the package executable.

 

7. Type ./NVIDIA* --extract-only. This will extract the package to the current working directory. Go into the new directory by typing cd ./NVIDIA*.

 

8. From within the NVIDIA directory type ./nvidia-installer --add-this-kernel. This will build the nvidia module against the current kernel. (Make sure the kernel sources are installed.)

 

9. Type ./nvidia-installer. The nvidia kernel module will be installed and you should get a message saying such.

 

10. Go into the /etc/X11 directory and edit XF86Config. Look for the "nv" module under the device heading and change it to "nvidia". Save and exit.

 

11. Edit /etc/modprobe.preload by adding "nvidia" to the list of modules. Also, the "via-agp" should be listed. (If you don't have a via chipset it should list the agp module for your chipset)

 

12. Edit /etc/inittab and change the init back to 5 from 3.

 

13. Reboot. Whala the driver should load.

 

14. Logon and check the driver by opening a terminal, su to root, and type cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0. It should show the proper card.

 

Good Luck! Hope this helps!!!

 

 

EDIT:

Also, if you want to overclock your video card put.

Option "Coolbits" "1"

In your XF86Config under Device

 

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

Edited August 24, 2005 by Slagathor