[NCLUG] NVIDIA GeForce 2
C. J. Keist
cjay at engr.colostate.edu
Sat Sep 7 12:30:04 MDT 2002
Thank you. Success, its working now. Guess the trick is editing the right
file!! Didn't catch on to edit the XF86config-4 file.
Thanks to all who responded....
On Friday 06 September 2002 13:00, you wrote:
> Maybe this will help; here's a section from my XF86Config-4 file.
> Your "PCI" slot may be different, this is actually an AGP slot.
>
> I'm using the driver from NVidia.
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "GeForce2 MX"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVidia"
> BoardName "GeForce2 MX"
> BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
>
>
> Quent
>
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:31:30AM -0600, Christopher C.J. Keist wrote:
> > Sorry, Yes. I did follow the README and modified XF86Config file. The
> > load glx is there and DRI is not along with some other driver they
> > listed that I forget. And I specified to load the "nvidia" drive
> > instead of the "nv" driver. I also ran the "ldconfig" command with no
> > luck.
> > Little confusing, when you down load NVIDIA_Kernel file. Makes me think
> > I have to compile and install new kernel, but README doesn't say
> > anything about installing new kernel. I went in and did a make xconfig
> > to see if any new options for NVIDIA were added but found none. I tried
> > compiling in the experimental NVIDIA frame buffer support, that only
> > gives me a nifty Tux logo during boot up now.
> >
> > On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 08:57 AM, Daniel Miles wrote:
> > >In the NVIDIA README files there is something about having to edit your
> > >/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and have it load GLX and specifically not
> > >load DRI and one other thing that I can't remember off the top of my
> > >head, you'll have to look that up but that should solve your problems.
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:27, C. J. Keist wrote:
> > >>Hello,
> > >> Just about given up here. I'm having no luck in getting this
> > >>NVIDIA
> > >>GeForce 2 graphics card to work with RH 7.2. I have downloaded the
> > >>GLX and
> > >>Kernel drivers from NVIDIA and installed. Install went through with
> > >>out any
> > >>errors. KDE comes up fine. When I try to start tux this is what I
> > >>get:
> > >>
> > >>*** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching
> > >>GLX
> > >>visual (Success)
> > >>
> > >>Has anyone else had any luck with this card?
> > >>
> > >>Thanks...
> > >>
> > >>If this helps here is the output of xdpyinfo:
> > >>
> > >>name of display: :0.0
> > >>version number: 11.0
> > >>vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc
> > >>vendor release number: 40100000
> > >>XFree86 version: 4.1.0
> > >>maximum request size: 4194300 bytes
> > >>motion buffer size: 256
> > >>bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
> > >>image byte order: LSBFirst
> > >>number of supported pixmap formats: 7
> > >>supported pixmap formats:
> > >> depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
> > >> depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
> > >>keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
> > >>focus: window 0x1e0000d, revert to PointerRoot
> > >>number of extensions: 26
> > >> BIG-REQUESTS
> > >> DOUBLE-BUFFER
> > >> DPMS
> > >> Extended-Visual-Information
> > >> FontCache
> > >> GLX
> > >> LBX
> > >> MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> > >> MIT-SHM
> > >> MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
> > >> NVIDIA-GLX
> > >> RENDER
> > >> SECURITY
> > >> SHAPE
> > >> SYNC
> > >> TOG-CUP
> > >> XC-APPGROUP
> > >> XC-MISC
> > >> XFree86-Bigfont
> > >> XFree86-DGA
> > >> XFree86-Misc
> > >> XFree86-VidModeExtension
> > >> XInputExtension
> > >> XKEYBOARD
> > >> XTEST
> > >> XVideo
> > >>default screen number: 0
> > >>number of screens: 1
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