[luau] Mandrake 9 & Geforce4 Ti4200

[Rodney Kanno]

I tried your (Eric) instructions..and I suppose I got a little farther.
Instead of getting the "no device found error" I get "could not load NV
driver" or something like that (can't recall at the moment). Do I need to
look into the instructions on the NVIDIA website a little more to try and
get it working. Funny thing is on the mandrake website, they don't list the
GeForce4 as being "compatible" with MDK9

Rodney



----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hattemer" <hattenator at imapmail.org>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Mandrake 9 & Geforce4 Ti4200


> Really, something must've gone wrong.  I'm using mdk 9rc3, which is 99%
> the same as mdk9.  I installed the nvidia source rpms using the rpm
> command, not urpmi.  I then compiled them with little problems (at first
> I forgot to download kernel-source and was all confused).  Then when I
> set it up and restarted (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.  Maybe I've just been using
> windows a lot lately, and expecting things to take a long time to
> start.  But yeah, 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
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 11:08, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> > I don't think the downable nVidia source rpms work with the 2.4.19
> > kernel, yet.  I installed the GLX and kernel source rpms on a system
> > with GeForce4 MX420 and they screwed up my Mandrake 9.0 solid--I
> > probably need to reinstall the whole thing.  Ditto for Red Hat 8.0 Null.
> >
> > For the time being, the workaround seems to be selecting the "Integrated
> > DDR GeForce2" as your video card.  It works OK for Mandrake 9.0.
>
>
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