[luau] Mandrake 9 & Geforce4 Ti4200

Don Brown mrdon at twdata.org
Tue Oct 1 07:09:00 PDT 2002


FWIW, my ISO's of Mandrake 9, CD's 1 and 2, didn't come with the kernel
source so I couldn't compile the NVIDIA kernel.  When I tried, I got all
sorts of problems.  I had to find a Mandrake 9 mirror and download the rpm
then install.  After that, it compiled just fine.

Don

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Joe Linux wrote:

> First go to
> www.nvidia.com .  Select drivers, graphics, GeForce, then linux.  Grab
> NVIDIA_GLX source rpm.  Grab NVIDIA_kernel source rpm.  Then get those
> to your linux machine (either copy the links and wget, or put them on a
> fat32 partition and just mount it in linux).  Then install both of those
> packages using the rpm command (*not urpmi).
> rpm -ivh NVIDIA*.rpm
> This puts them in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES .
> now get kernel source
> urpmi kernel-source
>
> cd /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
> tar xvzf *GLX*.tar.gz
> tar xvzf *kernel*.tar.gz
> cd NVIDIA_kernel-<numbers>
> gmake install
> cd NVIDIA_GLX-<numbers>
> gmake install
>
> <editor (ie. emacs)> /etc/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> find the driver line where it probably says "nv"
> replace the nv with nvidia
> save
> reboot (I know you don't strictly have to boot, but its easiest and a
> good test)
> you should be set.
>
>
>
> Eric Hattemer wrote:
>
> >I think I posted all the instructions to the
> >list earlier this week), I had some problems, actually.  KDE wouldn't
> >work at all, but gnome worked just fine.  I started up gdm manually and
> >could only run gnome programs.  I did that for a while, fixed my sound
> >driver, turned the computer off for the day, came back the next day, and
> >mysteriously, it worked beautifully and has worked ever since.  Maybe
> >its because I'm working on mostly new hardware, but I am amazed at how
> >quick and responsive mdk9 with kde is. . . .
> >
> >GF cards should work with nvidia's drivers in mdk9,
> >and if they don't, maybe I or someone else on the list can help you out
> >with that.
> >
> >-Eric Hattemer
> >
> >
>
>
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