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Old 04-02-2006, 11:23 PM   #1
lenny45
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Need Nvidia driver info.....


In Mepis, i uninstalled the nvidia 1.0.8178+2 drivers because they were not for my card. A Geforce Ti 4200.

Then i went back to the drivers i used before, the nvidia 1.0.7174+1. These show to be installed in Synaptic.

When i go to the display properties, instead of the number of the driver there (and the showing of the video card ya use and all that info) i just see Nvidia-settings configuration. 5 checked items that i can't look at.

It certainly wasen't what i saw before. Does anybody know what i need to add to the nvidia 1.0.7174+1 drivers to make them work properly? my screen res is 1024 X 768. it looks fine, except my gaming is not happenening.

when i click on unreal 2004, i have a giant slow motion and then a freeze and reboot.

anyway, anybody know what i can do to fix this? thx
 
Old 04-03-2006, 05:12 AM   #2
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check that the nvidia module is
a) being used by X (look in your config)
b) is loaded by the kernel (look in lsmod)
c) check dmesg after the load, make sure glx is being set up(dmesg | grep glx)

Hope this helps
-Rob
 
Old 04-04-2006, 10:34 AM   #3
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Ti4200 NVidia

I have a GeForce Ti4200 AGP 8x card 128MB

It works with all NVidia drivers including 8178

If you use Synaptic to get the drivers sometimes it helps to enable only the Mepis repositories

Also use force version to get the right version

Some of the kernel modules are marked ww3 for Warren

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

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

Mike
 
Old 04-04-2006, 04:18 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mdmarmer
I have a GeForce Ti4200 AGP 8x card 128MB

It works with all NVidia drivers including 8178

If you use Synaptic to get the drivers sometimes it helps to enable only the Mepis repositories

Also use force version to get the right version

Some of the kernel modules are marked ww3 for Warren

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

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

Mike
thanks md! i looked into the Mepis repositories and everythings installed. and i am having a bald moment on "force version"---don't know what that is. looking now at the ww3 kernel stuff now.
the reason i un-installed the 8178's is because i saw this...
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"NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
These XFree86 4.0 / Xorg 6.8 binary drivers provide optimized hardware
acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server.
AGP, PCIe, SLI, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported.

Cards NOT supported by this driver are

TNT, TNT2, Vanta, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR,
Quadro, GeForce2 Pro, GeForce2 GTS,
GeForce2 Ultra, GeForce2 Ti, Quadro2 Pro

See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.txt.gz for a complete list
of supported GPUs.

Please see the nvidia-kernel-source package for building the kernel module
required by this package."
-----------------------------------------------
since they didn't work, i aasumed they mean't MY CARD! anyway, if yours works---- there is a trick here and i wanna find it..... thanks again...
 
  


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