Waw this is fun. Status: Me the genius played around with some things in inittab and xorg.conf-vesa and a couple of other files while logged in as root and guess what.....
So i have a new computer. I downloaded the nvidia driver for my graphics card. It came with a .run extension. If i remember correctly i think i just type the name of the file on a command line and press enter to execute the file. Question? from which directory should i execute /usr or /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
What is the main directory for installing programs on linux?
When this is done im going to reinstall all the things that daedra had posted and ill see how it goes from there.

Are you familiar at all with using slackbuilds? If so, I would suggest installing the driver that way, using the first two items listed here:

http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=nvidia&sv=13.0

Adam

Yes i am. But usually with files that are compressed, those with tar.gz extension and sometimes the bzip too i think.. never really tried with .run extension. Is it the same process. extract ->put run file in extracted directory->check version->./slackbuild->go to /tmp->installpkg itemname.tgz. Willing to try anything to get this machine to look and feel like mines.

The process is the same. You download the slackbuild and the source package (which is just the installer) and you put the source package into the directory extracted from the slackbuild and then run the slackbuild as usual.

Adam

strange:

bash-3.1$ ls -l
total 13852
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 14146513 2009-10-07 08:17 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg0.run
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 1958 2009-09-26 17:12 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 1846 2009-09-26 17:12 doinst.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frost users 4486 2009-09-26 17:12 nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 456 2009-09-26 18:12 nvidia-driver.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 11716 2009-09-26 17:12 nvidia-switch
-rw-r--r-- 1 frost users 930 2009-09-26 17:12 slack-desc
bash-3.1$ ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
sh: /home/frost/Downloads/nvidia: No such file or directory
bash-3.1$ ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
sh: /home/frost/Downloads/nvidia: No such file or directory

This usually works!

Sorry, but I've never installed the nvidia drivers a slackware box, and I'm not in front of slackware at the moment, so I think someone else will have to chime in here.

Adam

Just installed openoffice from slackbuild and it worked.

Should have used the prebuilt package from here:http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.0/

Hmm. interesting. Is something wrong with the openoffice from slackbuild.org. I think its the nvidia adam was referring too..

Nvidia and openoffice are two different things. Or am I missing something here?

Not very helpful shylock. If i knew what i was doing i wont be here

Sorry i didn't mean to be rude, i was just confused when you suddenly talked about openoffice. To be honest I looked at the last few posts and didn't find anyone mention about openoffice and then you suddenly said you installed openoffice which fixed your problem hence I was trying to figure how that happened. Sorry again. Glad you fixed yur problem.

Regards

I don't think he meant to say that his problems with the nvidia drivers are resolved, simply that he did manage to install openoffice via slackbuilds to demonstrate that he at least knows what he is doing when it comes to install software via slackbuilds, but still doesn't understand why the nvidia driver slackbuild isn't working.

Adam

Well the Nvidia slckbuild driver didn't work for me either. i just used to get a black screen after configuring X. So I use the run file and compiled from nvidia.com. You can try that fread. It's not that difficult , just download it, logout of slackware and goto console mode [no X] and cd to your download directory and run it using: sh nvidia-driver-name.run

Good Luck

Precisely... What about the one i downloaded from nvidia. Should i exe that and if yes from which directory
No worries ~sHyLoCk~. its all good