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Old 08-22-2007, 03:51 AM   #1
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Question Nvidia Driver


I have Mandriva 2007 installed on my system. it has a Nvidia Go Geforce 7400 graphic card. the Xorg servers or drivers are available for 7950 and 8800 which both dont work on mine after trying. how do i get it working? is there any site from where i can download it? or wat else can be done?
 
Old 08-22-2007, 05:54 AM   #2
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I have the same card, go to http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html, click download drivers, find the linux ones, put it somewhere and execute the program ("./Nvidia-foo"). If you afterwards run nvidia-xconf or something similar your xorg.conf is automatically adjusted. Alternatively you can edit xorg.conf by hand and change nv into nvidia. For compositing support add:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to the very end of the file.

Good luck.
 
Old 08-22-2007, 11:41 PM   #3
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thanks very much!!
 
Old 08-23-2007, 03:08 AM   #4
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You're welcome.

By the way you should for 3d acceleration also add

Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

to the screen section.
 
Old 08-24-2007, 03:55 AM   #5
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the new version,

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run

configures xorg.conf automatically.

My 2 cents, Glenn
 
Old 09-20-2007, 08:10 AM   #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennsPref View Post
the new version,

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run

configures xorg.conf automatically.

My 2 cents, Glenn
Nvidia has a new driver: 100.14.19. This driver is working much better in my Sony Vaio Laptop FZ180/BE.
 
  


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