sofasurfer Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Mandrake 2006 [root@localhost daryl]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Duron unknown GNU/Linux [daryl@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.12-12mdk (apatard@n1.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)) #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 I installed my kernel sourcecode from my cd (kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-12mdk.i586). 'Urpmi binutils' shows that binutils is already installed. At this point I should be able to install IA32 Nvidia driver. su init 3 Next I cd to /Downloads where I have my Nvidia driver, and then... chmod NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run I am presented with an agreement which I accept and then I get this message... There appears to be a driver already installed. This driver will be deleted. I press OK Next message... No precompiled kernel. Would you like installer to download kernel interface from NVidia. I click yes and thats as far as it goes. Freeze-up. I notice that even though I installed the sourcecode as seen above, when I do a urpmi kernel-source, urpmi begins downloading from a mirror. Where am I going wrong? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 No precompiled kernel. Would you like installer to download kernel interface from NVidia. try a 'no' there and let it compile one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted April 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 No precompiled kernel. Would you like installer to download kernel interface from NVidia. try a 'no' there and let it compile one. That did it. After that step I got a warning about 'driver installation has been altered since initioal installation'. And that almost confused me again. But it said my xf86config-4 file has been altered. So I checked it and sure enough, the xf86config file was altered to show that it was now NVidia ready. Note that I do not have a xf86config-4 file but only a xf86config file. Is this acceptable? If so, I am all set. My glxgears went from about 90 fps to 532 fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 With the jump you have seen in your glxgears score I would say the driver was installed. Try this command to verify: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Any errors associated with the loading of /etc/X11/xorg.conf can be found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages. Have a look there. Your glxgears score looks a little low. I get a value of 860 on an old gforce 2 card. What kind of card do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alloh Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Your glxgears score looks a little low. I get a value of 860 on an old gforce 2 card. What kind of card do you have? Post your "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "lspci" And use of "glxinfo" instead of glxgears is far prefferable, since it gives detailed text information, instead of work/dont. Catch the line "Direct Rendering", if it is "Yes" then its your VGA card thats rendering the scenes, if no, then your CPU does the job via Mesa - really slooooweeerrrr... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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