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Feing

11-10-2002, 05:33 PM

Hi all, i am a very very linux newbie and I´m having a lot of problems trying to install nvidia kernel & glx on mandrake 9.0.
I tried installing the source rpm, but i received some errors, also tried the tar but didn´t work either.
Finally I installed NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.mdk82up.i586.rpm
and seemed to go, the installed glx and modified the XF86Config-4 to load nvidia driver, but X crashed at start (can´t load NVIDIA driver)...
I´m totally lost now, someone can lend me a hand or point me to a web where installation process is explained?
Thanks for reading the post and I hope i can keep on with linux (it really rocks ;) ).

mdwatts

11-10-2002, 05:46 PM

One of our members (bwkaz) wrote the following how-to for the nvidia drivers.

http://3dguios.resnet.mtu.edu/nVidia-NHF.html

It is posted in the 'How I Did It' forum.

bwkaz

11-10-2002, 08:44 PM

Dolphin... that's Mandrake, right?

I think the problem is that you need to add alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver to your /etc/modules.conf file, run depmod -a (both as root), and try again.

Feing

11-11-2002, 02:19 AM

OK, thanks a lot. i´ll try again and I hope that it works this time.

:)

Feing

11-17-2002, 08:53 AM

At last! I was able to configure NVIDIA drivers. Check this wonderful forum all of you who are having trouble installing nvidia drivers, it helped me a lot.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/
forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
The are at nvidia page, on linux
display drivers.
:p