Installing NVidia Drivers - Easy?

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 01:57 AM

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0648 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a4)

newinlinux · 03-30-2004, 02:05 AM

hmm, strange. I have an SiS 648 mobo from MSI with identical chipsets(i think) with yours, it uses the Realtek AL650 sound chip, the drivers to use is the intel8x0. Have you installed Slack with all the defaults packages in selected? There are alsa-drivers, alsa-oss, alsa-utils and alsa-lib, i installed all these 4 packages and sound works on my machine.

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 02:14 AM

Yea I have all of those installed, lol. I don't know what's up with this...

newinlinux · 03-30-2004, 02:20 AM

i know this is lame, will you do a upgradepkg to the lastest alsa packages from :

http://www.slackware.com/pb/search.p...nt&string=alsa

hope they canl help you. sorry couldn't think of any better idea than reinsatll now, i'm a newbie still

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 02:26 AM

my swaret is still looking at (I guess...) 9.1? Why isn't it looking at current? I had to manually go there (by the way, the downloads aren't moving, lol. Transfering 0kbps... haha)... And also, swaret --upgrade kde -a says nothing was found.... right. Then I did swaret --list kde -a and it lists a bunch of 3.1.4s?? Any idea?

newinlinux · 03-30-2004, 02:29 AM

you got to amend the swaret.conf where VERSION=current from 9.1, then swaret --update, from then onwards, u will be seeing suggestions on what pacjkages to upgrade. how's the sound? you seems to be getting along really quick in slack

fcaraballo · 03-30-2004, 02:43 AM

Did you upgrade to the newer kernel, if so you need to reinstall alsa (swaret can do that for you) then configure it. As for your swaret problem, you need to edit /etc/swaret.conf and change 9.1 to current. If you didnt upgrade your kernel and want swaret too, you need to unrem the exclusion to the kernel. Save your changes and run swaret again.

ringwraith · 03-30-2004, 06:25 AM

Try alsaconf as root. You are not loading the needed driver at this point. If that does not work list your lsmod output here.

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 08:40 AM

I got swaret working with current, changed the config file like was suggested :-) Thanks.

I left my computer this morning upgrading kde to 3.2... a 180MB total in files, lol. Was going to take a while (and I had to leave for school). So when I get home I will upgrade aRTS, and alsa.

Maybe the sound will finally work, :-)

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 05:23 PM

It still doesn't work :-\

Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'.
Please check that you have permissions to open '/dev/mixer'
and that you have sound support in your kernel.

ringwraith · 03-30-2004, 05:31 PM

did you try to run alsaconf? did you paste lsmod?

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 05:32 PM

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
soundcore 3332 0 (autoclean)
nvidia 1965152 4 (autoclean)
printer 7040 0
usb-ohci 18888 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 16872 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [printer usb-ohci ehci-hcd]
sis900 13388 1
crc32 2880 0 [sis900]
pcmcia_core 40032 0
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 39576 3

alsaconf says nothing was found... tries like 6 things then says nothing found, lol. That's great.

Code:

# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0648 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 3.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
        Memory behind bridge: d8000000-d9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 2

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at da024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        Memory at da020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at da021000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at da022000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
        Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1803
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
        Memory at da023000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a4) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 06:33 PM

Code:

# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

So I am guessing that snd_ctl_open comes from alsaconfig, which I just happen not to be able to configure. :-)

Any suggestions? Thanks again!! :-D

Kovacs · 03-30-2004, 06:54 PM

Remove your current alsa packages with pkgtool or removepkg. Go to alsa-project.org and download the alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-tool packages. Find the instruction page for your sound card (look in the card database) and compile them from source, you can make packages for them with checkinstall if you wish. Then try running alsaconf again - that's what I had to do to get it to detect my SiS 7012 onboard sound card.

vi0lat0r · 03-30-2004, 09:09 PM

Just want to thank everyone who participated in this thread :-)

Let me go over everything that has been fixed (which everything is fixed :-D):

- Scroll Mouse
- NVidia Drivers
- Kernel 2.4.25custom
- HIGHMEM Support enabled in 2.4.25custom
- Alsa & OSS sound system working perfectly

All of this was resolved in under 22 hours - I especially want to thank newinlinux for staying up hours on end working with me on this, people like you make LQ the place it has become :-)

My personal opinion on slackware is that it's an excellent distribution. The amount of work and effort clearly put into it is amazing. I recommend it to anyone looking for a easy to install distribution, and friendly people here to help you setup even the most difficult hardware :-)