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Only if there was a installation guide.

IT would be SO GREAT... If there was a Installation Guide or Tutorial that takes you from Installation of Mandriva 2006... right... all the way through the process of installing a game... Step by step cause I've tried everything and I cannot get any of my games to work... XMoto works, glxgears work... Cedega + Battlefield Vietnam, Steam, CounterStrike, F.E.A.R. dont work.... Is there ANY body that knows how to install any of these games from start to finish in Mandriva 2006?

Thank you So much!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. You will help guide another lost soul away from Windows and To the great world of Linux if This can be accompllished for me, I will delete my Windows partition.

P.S.S. I have GeForce 5500 FX 256mb PCI Graphics card

P.S.S.S. I'm a Contributing Member ;)

Did you install the driver for your video card and is it install right? You should see a nvidia splash screen upon bootup if it's installed in the proper manner.

I Do Not see the Splash Screen, its the wierdist thing... but GLX Gears works!?! Ill Post my xorg for you.

Heres xorg.conf

Code:

File generated by XFdrake.



# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************



Section "Files"

    # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

    # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

    # the X server to render fonts.

    FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection



Section "ServerFlags"

    #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

    #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work

EndSection



Section "Module"

    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

    Load "extmod"

    Load "type1"

    Load "freetype"

    Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Keyboard1"

    Driver "keyboard"

    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

    Option "XkbLayout" "us"

    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Mouse1"

    Driver "mouse"

    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

    Identifier "monitor1"

    VendorName "Plug'n Play"

    ModelName "DELL E773c"

    HorizSync 30-70

    VertRefresh 50-160



    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

    ModeLine "768x576"    50.00  768  832  846 1000  576  590  595  630



    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

    ModeLine "768x576"    63.07  768  800  960 1024  576  578  590  616

EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier "device1"

    VendorName "nVidia"

    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

    Driver "nvidia"

    BusID "PCI:1:5:0"

    Option "DPMS"

    Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

    Identifier "screen1"

    Device "device1"

    Monitor "monitor1"

    DefaultColorDepth 24



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 8

        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort 0 0

    EndSubsection



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 16

        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort 0 0

    EndSubsection



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 24

        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort 0 0

    EndSubsection

EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier "layout1"

    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

    Screen "screen1"

EndSection

Here is part of lsmod Command:

Code:

ntfs                  212728  1

supermount            31956  1

intel_agp              20828  1

nvidia              4522484  12

agpgart                29032  2 intel_agp,nvidia

i2c_core              17360  1 nvidia

tsdev                  5984  0

I HAve a Intel Onboard Graphics card along with my PCI card.. but I dont want to use the Intel Onboard graphics... in Bios theres only Values On and Auto for the onboard... I have it Auto

heres command lspci:

Code:

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)

00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)

01:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X

01:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)

Installation for games goes fine in cedega, then I clicked to Play, It brings up the Splash Screen for a second... Then the screen blips and its back to desktop... In Console where I commaneded cedega to open it says Wine unhandled exception error or something like that...

Also My Kernel version is 2.6.12-19mdk... If someone can Please help me figure out whats going on here i Would really appreciate it... I NEED GAMES IN LINUX or else i need Windows on my computer, and I dont think any of us want that..

That Nvidia site says that my card is supported, but not sure if it only supports the AGP version... I have the PCI

GeForce FX 5500 0x0326

Mines GeForce FX 5500 PCI

GeForce FX 5500 is the same card I have on my system and it runs great. If you have the actual nvidia drivers installed you should see a Nvidia splash screen when you boot just before you login screen.

Looking at your lsmod it looks like the driver is installed.

But the splash Screen doenst Display... Like I said I have the PCI version of that card... Mandriva Update installed nvidia drivers during Update... It seems installed, but no splash screen, no Cedega games..

Craig: What driver (card name) did you select for Nvidia drivers installation process

In the results of lsmod for the nvidia card

what does nVidia Corporation NV34 mean... isnt the NV driver not the same as nvidia driver?

Something wierd from LSPCIDRAKE command:

intel-agp : Intel Corp.|82845 845 Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) [BRIDGE_HOST]
Card:Intel 845 : Intel Corp.|82845 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] [DISPLAY_O THER]
usb-uhci : Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB]
usb-uhci : Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB]
usb-uhci : Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB]
ehci-hcd : Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Enhanced Controller [SERIAL_USB]
hw_random : Intel Corp.|82820 815e (Camino 2) Chipset PCI [BRIDGE_PCI]
i810-tco : Intel Corp.|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset ISA Bridge (ICH4) [BRIDGE_ ISA]
piix : Intel Corp.|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset IDE Controller [STORAGE_ID E]
i2c-i801 : Intel Corp.|82801DB SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS]
snd-emu10k1x : Creative Labs|[SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|[SB Live! Value] Input device controller [INPUT_ OTHER]
Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic): nVidia|0x326 [DISPLAY_VGA]
b44 : Broadcom Corp.|BCM4401 100Base-T [NETWORK_ETHERNET]
hub : Linux 2.6.12-19mdk ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused]
hub : Linux 2.6.12-19mdk uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused]
hub : Linux 2.6.12-19mdk uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused]
usbhid : Logitech, Inc.|Optical Mouse [Human Interface Devices|Boot Int erface Subclass|Mouse]
hub : Linux 2.6.12-19mdk uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused]

Could the 2 Card's be the problem?

Also when I hit Test from the hard drake control center in the nvidia Config tool, it shows me a Rainbow, and says Is this the correct setting?

I think I know the problem........ In xorg.conf Instead of Load "GLX" its Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"

What is the meaning of this, could this be why my games dont work?