Giscardo
07-31-2001, 06:00 AM
I downloaded the source files (in three tarballs total) for X4.1.0, and I've followed the instructions on the install, but i can't start x now. I get an error that says something to the effect of "could not load NVIDIA kernel driver" (for my Geforce2MX). I had 4.0.1 installed before i tried to upgrade, and it wsa wokring with the newest NVIDIA linux drivers.
GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS: You may ask why I wanted to upgrade X in the first place? Well basically it's that "newer is better" mentallity, and I want to have experience in compilling, installing, and configuring things under linux. I got tired of my hand being held by mandrake, so i did a bare install of mandrake (did nothing but development tools, and networking support). I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7 and that sort of worked (i can't mount my windows partitions now, even tho i enabled fat support in the "make config" phase. I don't want anything to do with rpms (maybe once i'm confident that i could do everything without rpms i might start using them again). I am going to just to a bare install of mandrake again (because i dont know how to remove X completely, and start over, if you could help me do that i'd love it). Also i tried to install kde2.1.2 from source tarballs and the install seemed to go fine, but i don't see how i am supposed to start kde. "startkde" and "kde" are unrecognized commands.
GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS: You may ask why I wanted to upgrade X in the first place? Well basically it's that "newer is better" mentallity, and I want to have experience in compilling, installing, and configuring things under linux. I got tired of my hand being held by mandrake, so i did a bare install of mandrake (did nothing but development tools, and networking support). I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7 and that sort of worked (i can't mount my windows partitions now, even tho i enabled fat support in the "make config" phase. I don't want anything to do with rpms (maybe once i'm confident that i could do everything without rpms i might start using them again). I am going to just to a bare install of mandrake again (because i dont know how to remove X completely, and start over, if you could help me do that i'd love it). Also i tried to install kde2.1.2 from source tarballs and the install seemed to go fine, but i don't see how i am supposed to start kde. "startkde" and "kde" are unrecognized commands.