Guest arise Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 I can second on that, the NV25 is not recognized out of the box by XFree 4.2.1 :( I cannot choose anything except Geforce generic, but after that I installed the Nvidia Tarballs and it was ok. Funny thing is Redhat 8.0 (w/XFree 4.2.0) has NO problems with my Ti4200 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dlmazzo Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 I had similar trouble getting the GeForce4 to come up right in Mandrake 8.2 -- there are new drivers on NVidia's site but note that they are for 8.2 only -- NOT 9.0. However, some of the posters here imply that you may be able to build them. I did it using their .rpm files and it works (even with TwinView). It looks like the GeForce4 will be a great video card (two DVI outputs) but we may need time for the drivers and distributions to catch up. I learned a big lesson on backing up my XF86Config-4 BEFORE screwing with things. At least you can return to a working system if you mess something up. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drnibbles Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 *edit* Ok so i did some more searching on this board and I found a tutorial.. Thanks for all the help. It's fantastic... Well I have always dreamt about installing the non MS system like Mandrake and i did last night. Now I'm pretty new to *nix but like to test and roam around. But I have no clue how to get this to work. It's just to many files to compile here and to isnatll there, such things as rpms and tar and alla else. I cannot find any step by step on mandrake how to install and get KDE up and running with my geforce and I really would like to get Mandrake to run. This is why I usually go back to MS again as it is just to much work to get things to run on *unix. But hey I'll give it one more shot... Any one willing to help a new but intrested user..... Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kamikaze_Gerbil Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 *edit* Ok so i did some more searching on this board and I found a tutorial.. Thanks for all the help. It's fantastic... I cannot find any step by step on mandrake how to install and get KDE up and running with my geforce and I really would like to get Mandrake to run. This is why I usually go back to MS again as it is just to much work to get things to run on *unix. But hey I'll give it one more shot... Any one willing to help a new but intrested user..... Cheers I followed this and had no problems. Its very step by step. http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php Anyone get TwinView working well? I can get it sort of working with partial destop showing on the TV, or full desktop but no monitor! (Dont have a second monitor :( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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