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Howto: Installing Nvidia drivers for Mandrake 9.0


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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!

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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

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..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.

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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 !!

 

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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:

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..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?

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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.

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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

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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:

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