Nvidia Drivers question

Hi!!!

I'm having some hard times here trying to install Nvidia Drivers and TV-out in Redhat 9.0 and Mandy 9.1. As Linux automatically identify Nvidia Cards during install ( a generic driver ), do I need to keep trying to install the new drivers? I mean, I basically would like to run some few native Linux games such as Quake 3 and get TV-out to work (yeah, last thing to do before kick M$)....

Is it possible or do I really need the new drivers?

Thanks a lot in advance

Well, like you said, it's a generic driver. It's not going to interface as well as the closed driver available from nvidia.com will, so you probably won't get as much performance as your would from the official driver. However, for general purpose, you might get by. Only one way to really tell though

As for TV - Out, yes, I think you will need the official driver as the options are to the driver, and I doubt the generic driver will have the options to pass to it for the TV Out function.

Cool

Thanks a lot MasterC . I will keep trying to install the new drivers then. Does anybody know a simplified "How to" install Nvidia Drivers? I've read all the documentation and I'm still going nowhere

What kind of "errors" or "problems" are you having? What have you tried? At which point are you apparently "not getting it" ?

Cool

If you want a quick test of your drivers, fire up the game Chromium (comes with Mdk9). You'll soon see what hardware's doing the graphics work

To install the drivers, download the .run file to /root, maybe via the root gui, or command line if you're good enough.
*Press Ctrl+Alt+F1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to gui at this time
*Log in as root
*Type telinit 3 and press return
*Type sh ./driverfilename.run
*Accept, and it should be done installing in about 5 seconds. (It is for me, something about prebuild drivers)
*Then type vim /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and press return
*Check the module section doesnt have Load dri or GLcore. Comment out such lines (plase a # at the start of the line)
Press Insert to enter the editing mode, use Esc to leave it.
*Make sure there's a Load "glx" line.
*In the device section, change nv to nvidia, and optionally change generic to 4363 to remind you the driver's installed.
*After that, press Esc, and then press :wq and return.
You should be back at the root command prompt.
*Finally enter telinit 5 and you're all done.

Word!

You forgot the "And test the greatness with glxgears" No, but really, that can be a good indication to you of the difference. Try a benchmark similar to that to give yourself a guage of how much better the official drivers are.

And of course, half the fun, read the README so you can add all the options, like cursor shadowing

Cool

Originally posted by Proud If you want a quick test of your drivers, fire up the game Chromium (comes with Mdk9). You'll soon see what hardware's doing the graphics work To install the drivers, download the .run file to /root, maybe via the root gui, or command line if you're good enough. *Press Ctrl+Alt+F1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to gui at this time *Log in as root *Type telinit 3 and press return *Type sh ./driverfilename.run *Accept, and it should be done installing in about 5 seconds. (It is for me, something about prebuild drivers) *Then type vim /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and press return *Check the module section doesnt have Load dri or GLcore. Comment out such lines (plase a # at the start of the line) Press Insert to enter the editing mode, use Esc to leave it. *Make sure there's a Load "glx" line. *In the device section, change nv to nvidia, and optionally change generic to 4363 to remind you the driver's installed. *After that, press Esc, and then press :wq and return. You should be back at the root command prompt. *Finally enter telinit 5 and you're all done.

You forgot to add
*sit back and relish the fact that you have an OS that doesn't require a reboot just to install a driver*

:P

slight

Actaully I am quite pleased that I found how to use telinit instead of changing /etc/inittab and rebooting twice

Originally posted by Proud Actaully I am quite pleased that I found how to use telinit instead of changing /etc/inittab and rebooting twice

The real challenge is doing that over an ssh connection, after telinit, you lose the connection, so how to bring it back up to the desired runlevel...

Cool

Proud.
You did a Super Job!

I needed this fix for a laptop. telinit 3, ran Nvidia script, edited XF86Config-4, telinit 5... X Started up no problems, as before it hung with "fixed" font (path error).

many thanks to ya!

Cool.
Oh yeah, this seems to work for the latest 4496 driver too, as 4363 and 4496 are similar style installers.

Zedraloth
If you're wondering where your first post has gone, I dissected it and it's now titled "Mandrake, Geforce 4 MX440, S-video Out TV Resolution problem".
Our motd being "new questions deserve new threads".

Cheers, unSpawn

Well I've tried the 4496, 4363 and even several of the older drivers, none of them work on my GeForce4 440 mx in mdk9.1. I wonder if it's the SiS chipset that's responsable?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/foru...php?forumid=14