Installed Nvidia Driver...

[TitanKing]

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 !

 

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[ffi]

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 :)

[TitanKing]

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

[daniewicz]

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.

[ffi]

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

[tyme]

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*

[Tom S]

K Menu->System->Configuration->Hardware->nVidia Settings

Not here. No such entry

Thomas

[tyme]

Not here. No such entry

Thomas

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.

[TitanKing]

Thanks for all the replies guys, you are all great. Now to do the checking :)