[luau] MDK 9 & NVIDIA driver installation woes

[Eric Hattemer]

When you say no luck, does it still lock up?  I don't know anything
about the GF4, but I've never had serious problems installing these
drivers.  The default X drivers will hardlock any of the newer GF cards,
but the nvidia drivers shouldn't.  Was it working properly in the
framebuffer mode after the install?  I'll send you my XF86Config-4
file.  Make sure that the -4 file and the XF86Config file are linked
together.  This shouldn't be a big problem on mandrake, but since redhat
is really broken in this way, just check it anyway.  ie:

ll /etc/X11/X*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Oct 12 16:12 /etc/X11/X ->
../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2743 Oct 12 16:13
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2743 Oct 12 16:12
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4~
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2739 Oct 12 16:11
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          955 Sep 25 12:40
/etc/X11/XF86Config.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13766 Oct 21 23:51
/etc/X11/XftConfig
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          275 Sep 10 00:15 /etc/X11/Xmodmap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2008 Sep 10 00:15
/etc/X11/Xresources*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4800 Sep 10 00:15
/etc/X11/Xsession*

In my case, I don't have an XF86Config file at all.  You shouldn't need
one.  But if you have one, back it up, and then delete it.  All you need
is the XF86Config-4 file.  Also, be aware that the kernel module won't
always show up in lsmod because its autocleaned every now and then.  But
right when you boot, do an lsmod and look for NVDriver.

-Eric Hattemer

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 13:08, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > Rodney, IIRC, you must also edit you XF86Config-4 to specify the new
> > NVdriver, instead of the default nv one. Should be in the Graphics
> > device section, under section "Device". Hope it works, and would be
> > interested if it does, since I may attempt the same thing soon. 
> 
> I tried changing that as well, but no luck yet....
> 
> Rodney
> 
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