TitanKing Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I just installed Nvidia Drivers on my 7800 GTX, on Mandriva 2006 by; Pressing Cntr + Alt + F1; Then Init 3 Ran sh ///blah/blah... It says that all is successful, but how can I be sure ? Thanks in advance ! [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 You'll see a screen with the nVidia logo when starting up just for less then a second. Reboot and restart, linux if you see the logo you're there :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanKing Posted March 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 (edited) Thank you very much for the reply, and yes I see it, but is there anywhere where I can view driver versions and such ? Edited March 26, 2006 by TitanKing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I believe the loaded driver should be listed in /var/log/messages There is also a nvidia tweaking utility that lists the driver version being used. I believe it is started from the console with "nvidia-settings". I am going from memory on this, I am not at my linux box currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 (edited) I believe the loaded driver should be listed in /var/log/messages There is also a nvidia tweaking utility that lists the driver version being used. I believe it is started from the console with "nvidia-settings". I am going from memory on this, I am not at my linux box currently. K Menu->System->Configuration->Hardware->nVidia Settings Edited March 26, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 You'll see a screen with the nVidia logo when starting up just for less then a second. Reboot and restart, linux if you see the logo you're there :)not necessarily. this means that the driver is loaded, but not that 3d rendering is working properly. here's some info on finding out if the driver is working properly: from a command line (terminal) do: $ lsmod | grep nvidia and make sure you see something like: nvidia 4085424 18 (the numbers may be different) then, do: $ glxinfo | grep direct and make sure you get: direct rendering: Yes for version info: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version you can also find more information with the following three commands: $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 (note that in all the commands $ is not part of the command, just there to indicate that you can do it as regular user) i.e. (this is my output, yours may vary): [mark@einsiedler ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-8178 Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005 GCC version: gcc version 4.0.3 [mark@einsiedler ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Enabled [mark@einsiedler ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f004302 [mark@einsiedler ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 Model: GeForce 6600 GT IRQ: 21 Video BIOS: 05.43.02.27.01 Card Type: AGP *edited: added version info, forgot about it earlier ;) marked as bolded text* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom S Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 K Menu->System->Configuration->Hardware->nVidia Settings Not here. No such entry Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Not here. No such entryThomas if i'm reading this correctly, that would be because you're using an ati card and not the nvidia drivers...but perhaps that is a different system. i also believe nvidia-settings may be an extra package, not part of the driver install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanKing Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Thanks for all the replies guys, you are all great. Now to do the checking :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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