Guest richard_haggath Posted February 14, 2003 Report Share Posted February 14, 2003 hi i have downloaded the archives for the nvidia drivers for my geforce 3 i have extracted them but can't seem to get anything to happen when i try to install them from the console. someone please tell me what to do step by step and exactly what each step is doing please please. i am running mandrake 9.0 on my athlon 1800 with a geforce 3 ti 200 made by MSI. p.s. i have two archives one is the kernel file and the other the glx file thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 14, 2003 Report Share Posted February 14, 2003 delete the tarballs and follow the insrtuctions here :wink: http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=tutorials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_haggath Posted February 15, 2003 Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 did what you said and managed to get the glx file in the right place but the kernel file i have is an rpm not a source rpm so it doesn't install like the glx or have i got it all wrong. one good thing though i am slowly picking up a few things about the command line and permissions. 8) :lol: :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 15, 2003 Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 A src.rpm has to be rebuilt b4 installed. A rebuilt rpm and a binary rpm install the same way (rpm -ivh). The NVIDIA_kernel-bla.bla.bla-.src.rpm is really the one you want. Some people don't even rebuild the NVIDIA_GLX, but why I have no idea, because it only takes 1 more minute. I don't remember how close to DOlsons tut this is, but what I've always done is download both the NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX .src.rpm's into one dir > as root cd /path/to/ ls rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm Then from init 3 (console)..(actually all this should be done from console) rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ixxx/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.ixxx.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.ixxx.rpm Don't forget to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Let us know :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_haggath Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 done it at last. the problem i had was that one was a source rpm and the other just a normal rpm. so i simply unpacked the rpm then compiled the source rpm to install. then followed the tute and it all went sweet. many thanks now i justy got to get my modem working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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