Hello all. I am a brand new user to Mepis. I am trying to install the Nvidia drivers for my Geforce 7800GTX PCI-E 256MB card but not sure how to go about it. I have already downloaded the drivers and did the --extract command, but when i try to install it i get something about kernel soure path and so on. I have never dealt with any kernel source before. I did a uname -r and got 2.6.15-1-586tsc Also i wanted to know can i install rpm's on Mepis? I am not if Mephis is debian based or not. Thank you for your time on this matter.

If possible can you be real detailed with your answer, thanks.

sure, this is about as detailed as i can get--(as you grow, you should aquire a nicer bedside manner when posing questions for help)

Mepis is a Debian Distro! It's the only one i have. I have an older Geforce card that i have my own issue's with. Issue's that i can't get an answer for either. hope that helps bro.....

Thanks for nothing.

Try this first -- it may not work
http://www.mepislovers-wiki.org/inde..._nvidia_driver

If it doesn't work, reinstall X as instructed there. Then open Synaptic and search for "NVidia" and get matching NVidia file for your kernel:

nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-1-586tsc version 1.0.7174-4+2.6.15-3.ww1_i386

Then find nvidia-glx version 1.0.7174-4
and nvidia-kernel-common
and make sure they're all loaded

This is from http://apt.mepis.org/3.4/ repository

Mike

Post to http://www.mepislovers.org -- great forum

Use the Wiki http://www.mepislovers-wiki.org/ you can search it

Download the user guide http://www.mepis.org/files/MEPIS%20User%20Guide.pdf

Thanks for the post, but after trying what you put up there i am still without nvidia drivers. This is a real pain in the ass, just to install some video card drivers. I ran and installed what you inform me on but still nothing. I dont get the nvidia splash screen in the beginning. Thank god for windows atleast.

One other thing :

Right click in an empty area of your screen, select Run command
command is kwrite
click Options, mark run as different user, root user, root password
Navigate to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
You'll find a line in one of the "Device" sections that says
Driver "nv"
Change just that one line t
Driver "nvidia"
Close the file, click on Save, Reboot
If this doesn't work, re-install X from the Mepis Live CD InstallMe as you did before or as explained in the wiki link above http://www.mepislovers-wiki.org/inde..._nvidia_driver

Mike

hmmm--i'm not one to judge but patience is not only for doctors

Lenny, where in Houston?

hey arch, west oaks area......westheimer--ish! where u at?

A little east of the Heights -- I-45 N just inside the Loop.

Do you ever come to HLUG www.hlug.org (Galleria area)?

not yet but i will try now.....thanks buddy. looks like some cool class's going on. i work over in that area part-time for IBM (windows only)! but would love to advance further into Linux...

i will join it also, whats your handle there?

I don't post enough at hlug.org to remember if I use "archtoad6" or my real name. I do much more on the TWiki.

Send me an e-mail via LQ.

Use mepis control center to install.i have a 7800gs used 8756 drivers worked great got from repo's.not sure which version of mepis you have , I am using mepis 6.0 a1.7174's did not work with my card these are the default drivers .

hey zippy, yea you have a nice card that use's the latest drivers. i tried both and i don't know what else to do. my old card is a Geforce t1 4200.

when i first installed Mepis 2 months ago, Unreal played very good although at 800x600! i was gonna start twaeking the resolution when Mepis crashed and i re-installed. since then, i could and CAN not figure out how to make Unreal play that fluid again. and yes, i originally used the Mepis install control center.

somewhere along the line, I've done something to Mepis to keep it from playing UT correctly......

i need to flush my drivers and start over, just don't know where to start. i have to go to windoze to play.....