help !!! install drivers
I HAVE a geforce 4 ti 4600 128mb ram 8x agp nvidia card that needed install new driver
from nvidia site. but, after i downloaded then , how should i do ?? the file end with something **pkg.run ??? i click on this, no work. and i have a quad cpu system. does linux support this super cpus and run like it has quad cpu ? |
There is a README file on the site where you downloaded the driver. There are a couple of things you need to do depending upon your distribution, etc. Just read that file, print it for reference (just the pertinent parts) and you'll be fine.
Run the NVIDIA file as it says by typing -> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run How to get rid of virus on WinXP? Format c:/q always works great for any Win problem :D Seriously, you may want to go online to www.grisoft.com and get their free anti-virus software, or go to www.symantec.com and search until you find their free online scanner. I run a P4 2.4GHz and it works just fine with a Linux kernel. |
Well, I know how to run it, but there is a tad problem: the kernel header files are not in the default locations or are non-existent altogether!
I can't seem to find kernel header files for my exact kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) I found one for 2.4.18-45mdk but I don't think they will fit exactly. When I used the headers from /usr/include/linux/ the installer couldn't compile the kernel interface, the log returned me the error that "you should not directly include /usr/include/linux files! These are glib internal and probably will not suit the kernel you are running". Help! :( P.S. Also, is there an easier way to switch between X and console mode without rebooting? |
Are you schizophrenic?
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Or did you just hijack this thread? :tisk: I don't mean to be rude, but I can't tell who I'm trying to help. If you are not pleasehelpme, why don't you start your own new thread instead of hijacking someone else's thread? If you are the same person, let us know that you just got a new login nick. Okay? :cool: |
Sorry whoops, in forums I am sort of used to using the same thread for a particular issue which can serve many people. Guess this must be a tad different.:o
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Both of these solutions have worked for me in Debian and Slackware, but I've never used Mandrake, so I'm sorry if they don't work in that distro. Please post back and let us know how it goes. |
Well, when I let it compile the interface (after it didn't find a precompiled interface for my kernel), it said it didn't match the kernel I was using. So I used /usr/include/linux header files instead. Alas, error, like I desribed earlier. In desperation, I decided this was a good time to get a new kernel and use those header files later. So I compiled my kernel, failed on make bzImage (source of error: the config file) when I decided to use my original config file. Bad Idea. Successful compilation, but doesn't recognise my USB mouse or my soundcard even when the config file for it is my /boot/ config file and its about 21 kb larger than the one I wrote from scratch (using xconfig, of course). When I load my old kernel, it doesn't load! I ended up having to reinstall....
So here I am, not really wanting to recompile another kernel, but stuck without the header files. I really need these too, Wine(X) works really slow without the drivers. I found the source code for my kernel, but not the header files...unless it is in the source code, but the rpm says all it installs are stuff in /lib/modules/* and nothing that ends with ".h" :( You can install the drivers without the header files? How? After it says "wrong interface/unable to compile interface" it says ERROR and takes me back to the command line. Should have never installed 9.2....there's more support and experience for 9.1..agh. |
First, did you check the dependencies before you tried the install? From the Nvidia driver page ->
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Nvidia has a forum which is manned by Andy Mecham, among others -> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/foru...?s=&forumid=14 When you get tired of fooling around with Mandrake, install Slackware :D Since Dalek has answered all your questions in the LQ thread I posted, and you've got another thread of your own going in LQ, I'm finished in this thread. Hope you get it working, and when you do, be courteous to others and post back how you got it to work. |
It wasn't the dependencies - it was the header files. I found them, (so hard to find - had someone give it to me lol). I knew which kernel headers I needed, I just needed the damn headers! They were non-existent (cursed n00b Mandrake must think that just because its user friendly it should exclude the header files). Alas, I need to fall back on an earlier driver (not the latest, but the next latest?) since WineX doesn't recognise the 4494 drivers.
Alas, the rpm that came in the CD doesn't have the include files, so I had to get one off the net. Hmm...I missed it out on the mandrake site earlier, damn long lists made me skip over the include folder in the rpm. |
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