Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I have been having poor performance in Gnome compared to KDE and I came across this thread at the Gnome support forums: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...der=asc&start=0 How can I tell which Nvidia drivers I'm using and if this might be the cause of the poor performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 In a terminal as root: rpm -qa | grep NV This --> | is a 'pipe'...the thing above the on the keyboard ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 In a terminal as root: rpm -qa | grep NV This --> | is a 'pipe'...the thing above the on the keyboard ;) Nothing happened. Just paused for a second and returned the next line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 That means you have no nvidia drivers installed (at least as RPMs). As root, if you do a lsmod do you see 'nvidia' on the list? Probably not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 That means you have no nvidia drivers installed (at least as RPMs). As root, if you do a lsmod do you see 'nvidia' on the list? Probably not. You are correct. No Nvidia listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Now the big question. Do you actually have an NVidia video card? I can't recall ever having seen you mention what kind of card you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Now the big question. Do you actually have an NVidia video card? I can't recall ever having seen you mention what kind of card you have. LOL! Yes I do. GeForce2 MX on an ASUS card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 First, [root@localhost bvc]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003 GCC version: gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) [root@localhost bvc]# Second, you don't need and rpm installed to have nvidia (yes I see Steve that you wrote "(at least as RPMs)". In fact, the latest nvidia driver isn't installed by rpm, though I believe it still can be done with the latest if you want to go through the trouble (is that what we have in the download section -the latest by rpm?). If you did want to check by rpm I've always done; rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA (don't you need the whole word?...I never tried NV) Third, if the rpm was installed lsmod wouldn't necessarily show nvidia if the X config file was not edited to load it....and even then sometimes a modprobe nvidia or insmod nvidia is necessary To see the video card as the kernel sees it do lspci -vv or cat /proc/pci :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 The usual response to my console inputs:( : [root@x1-6-00-80-c8-dd-4c-f6 root]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version cat: /proc/driver/nvidia/version: No such file or directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Have you installed the nvidia drivers yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 I had made the assumption that Linux would have detected my video card and installed the most up to date drivers available for Mandrake 9.1. And then I assumed they'd display following that command like yours have. I've assumed too much haven't I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Nvidia drivers are proprietary (if I'm not mistaken) so the only nvidia driver on the cd's is the 2D XFree86 driver (nv). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 bvc is correct. You need to go to nvidia sight and get the installation program, which works very well. But you still need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 This is the site I got the driver from http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux is there something beyond the driver itself that I should be getting? Ala this installation program? I've got no clue where or what that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Click on the I32 blah blah link (If you have a single processor normal type of machine!) and on the next page get NVIDIA-linux-x86-1.0-4363.run Do you boot to graphic or console? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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