Nvidia drivers and slack 7.1

[bkurt]

How did everyone else get the nvidia drivers working under slack 7.1. I have xfree86 4.0.1 installed and working fine. But I can't get the nvidia drivers installed correctly. When I uncomment the load glx and put in nvidia instead of nv in XF86Config my system will lock up shortly after starting X. The only thing I can figure is that is something with the mesa libraries. I tried renaming some of the files since it says on Nvidia's website that some could cause problems. So I'm just wondering what others did to get them working. I was using the .tar.gz nvidia files and just doing make in each directory after unpacking them. Then I put /sbin/modprobe/NVdriver in rc.modules. Thanks.

[bkurt]

I forgot to mention that I'm trying to install the 0.9.5 nvidia drivers and that I have a diamond viper 770 tnt2 running on a tyan trinity 400 mobo. Thanks.

[Daedra]

I do http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Ill admit it did take a while but there running great now, 80 fps in quake 3 http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

what is the problem your having i can probably help

P.S. i just noticed that you put /sbin/modprobe/NVdriver
i dont know if this will do anything but i put

insmod NVdriver
in my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules directory

also check and see if you have any of these files lurking...
/usr/lib/libMesaGL.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2

you can safely delete these files but if you delete /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 you will need to recreate it sysmlinking it to your new 9.5 driver like so...
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 <then type>
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 <then type>
/sbin/ldconfig

[This message has been edited by Daedra (edited 28 November 2000).]