hi David, Thanks for the great instructions. They should have been in the Release Notes! thanks, wayne On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 07:21, David Utidjian wrote: > Mike, > > I also went through similar tribulations since installing RC1 and the > 4496 version of the Nvidia drivers. I went to the Nvidia forum and there > are some pretty goofy methods in there (recompile the kernel with > gcc-3.3.2 and whatnot). The basic method (see below) is identical to the > regular Nvidia install instructions in the README from Nvidia with two > added steps. Pretty (relatively) simple. > I also had some problems with running Quake3. Very messed up. I haven't > tried UT2K3 yet. I also have a dual PIII system not an Athlon. > > Please let me know if this works. > > [Begin included instructions] > > This is what I did (all root commands are prepended with a # sign): > > 0. Download the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run from > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/...0-4496-pkg2.run > and put it somewhere useful (/tmp or /home/downloads or whatever). > > 1. Logout of the system then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a virtual console and > log in as root. > > 2. Switch runlevels from 5 to 3 this will stop X (as root): > > # telinit 3 > > It will take a few seconds as things shutdown/restart. > Hit [Enter] if you don't get a prompt back right away. > This will stop X "gracefully". X will restart automatically on reboot OR > the command startx OR the command telinit 5. > > 3. Set the C compiler environment variable to gcc32 (it is currently gcc > by default). > > # export CC=gcc32 > > 4. Remove the XFree86-Mesa-libGL package: > > # rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL > > 5. Now run the Nvidia driver installer as usual: > > # cd /path/to/where/you/put/it > # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run > > Answer the usual questions and it should build and install correctly. > > 6. Make a backup copy of your "known good" /etc/X11/XF86Config file: > > # cd /etc/X11 > # cp XF86Config XF86Config.bak > > 7. Edit your XF86Config file so that it will use the nvidia driver > rather than the stock nv driver. This will be in 'Section "Device"' and > there will be a line like this: > > Driver "nv" > > Change that line to: > > Driver "nvidia" > > You may also need to add and/or comment out some options in the 'Section > "Module"' part of that file. For details on this see the README file > which should be in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README. Once you are > finished editing the XF86Config file save it. > > 8. Test the new driver: > > # startx > > Which should start X. If X starts up OK try opening a terminal and type > in the command: > > # glxgears > > If that works fine then you are done installing the driver. > > 9. Logout of X. You should be abck at a command prompt. Then restart the > GUI login for X: > > # telinit 5 > > The GUI login for X should start up. > > 10. One last thing... you left a virtual console logged in as root. You > propably don't want to forget and leave that open so.... > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 > # exit > Alt-F7 > > Will log you out as root and return you to the GUI login. > > > Note: The above method is really pretty simple. There are only two added > steps from the method one would use in previous versions of Red Hat 9 or > earlier... they are steps 3 and 4. If you have installed Nvidia drivers > in Red Hat (or other distros) before then you will already be familiar > with most of this. Even if you are familiar with the Nvidia Linux > drivers you should read the README and other docs because there are a > lot of very cool features you may want to try out. This feature set > changes with each release of the drivers. > > [End included post] > > -DU-...etc... > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Wayne Schuller <k_wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
