Guest daimoni Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 HOWTO: Installing Nvidia drivers for Mandrake 9.0 This might be handy info for anyone with Nvidia's screencards since there is no packaged for 9.0 yet available - so here's a tricks how to get 3D acceleration work. Most important part - do NOT use 8.2 rpm's - result: broke X In order to get it work, you need to compile it from source. Here's how to do it! 1. su (and your root password) 2. wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz 3. tar xzf NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz tar xzf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz 4. cd NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123 (or wherever you extracted it) 5. make install 6. cd ../NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123 7. make install 8. emacs /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 locate line driver "nv" and replace it with driver "nvidia" also you should have line load "glx" after line load "freetype", if it isn't, add it too. now, ctrl-x-s to save your file, ctrl-x-c to quit emacs. Now you can start X, or restart it with ctrl-alt-backspace. everything should be set now - test it with tuxracer for example! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 2. wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz ... locate line driver "nv" and replace it with driver "nvidia" also you should have line load "glx" after line load "freetype", if it isn't, add it too. now, ctrl-x-s to save your file, ctrl-x-c to quit emacs. Now you can start X, or restart it with ctrl-alt-backspace. everything should be set now - test it with tuxracer for example! And why not just rebuild and upgrade the source RPMs? Why .tar.gz? rpm --rebuild _here goes the path to the ftp server _NVIDIA_kernel*.src.rpm rpm --rebuild _here goes the path to the ftp server_ NVIDIA_GLX*.src.rpm rpm -Uvh _here rebuilt rpms are placed_ NVIDIA*.i586.rpm or something like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 ...or look in the "LINKS" above and just check out the RPM's there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daimoni Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 ..rebuilding rpm's didn't work for me. that is anyway _a_ way to get it work. can't you just be happy and thankful when someone bothers to post something useful, always someone is whining why that way why not this way blablablabla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 daimoni As always with linux, there are many ways to achieve the same thing. No one is moaning, or whining, they are just giving their own view, or alternatives. Thankyou for your contributions and tips, keep them coming !! Anon.Moderator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daimoni Posted October 19, 2002 Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 yep that is true :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daimoni Posted October 19, 2002 Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 oh yeah, and that meant to be step-by-step, letter-by-letter tutorial for total newbies, and i think it's good for everyone who's new to linux, works as it is :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted October 19, 2002 Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 ..rebuilding rpm's didn't work for me.that is anyway _a_ way to get it work. can't you just be happy and thankful when someone bothers to post something useful, always someone is whining why that way why not this way blablablabla. It just seemed to me much more natural for RPM-based system as MDK 9.0, to download SRPMS, rebuild them and upgrade them. At least, that's what I've done with at least 3 recent versions of their driver. That worked. OK, almost 5 years of day-to-day work in HP-UX, Solaris and Linux may influence :-) It seems really weird to me that rebuilding rpms didn't work for you. May you please provide me with the details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daimoni Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 the problem was kernel driver, rebuilding & installing kernel driver caused the same problem as with using 8.2 rpm's - X couldn't start and told there was error in nvidia kernel driver. can't remember exacly what - i won't broke it with those rpm's again since i finally got it work from targz's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 I had just installed the rpm's I downloaded somewhere (PLF site maybe?) Seems to be working. I tested using glxgears and it told me it was running at between 800 to 1000 frames per second (or is it every 5 secs). I have a tnt2 riva card and was wondering if this is about right? I will try tuxracer shortly and see how that runs. Last I tried was with 8.2 and an older S3 card, which I was able to get running, but was practically unplayable due to the choppiness. How should tux run with this setup now? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 How should tux run with this setup now?Beautifully! If you're reffering to tuxracer. Be sure to check out (I think it's) ~/tuxracer/options, or something like that to make it twice as good. :) This link (starting at the bottom of the first page) shows a few users fps on nvidia; http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...6197&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 I coulda swore I wrote this tutorial already. Oh wait, yeah, I did: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 Repititon is good for the soul--- or someting like that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 I coulda swore I wrote this tutorial already. Oh wait, yeah, I did:http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php DOlson :?: I have seen that name before somewhere. :wink: BTW you can get rebuilt nvidia rpms here: http://www.kernow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ in the d-load bit. You need to shift click to get them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomasz Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Thanks a lot! Finally, I managed to install the nividia drivers. But, how do I remove the damn nvidia logo, which is displayed during every boot-sequence? I mean, I really don't need to advertise this company for myselft all the time... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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