Complaint about Slackware 12.2

joehnr · 12-23-2008, 08:18 AM

My nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] does not work.
I downloaded the driver from the nvidia site (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.07-pkg1),
but it fails to install.

(somehow I cannot give the log file, because it contains URL's ... and this is my first post)

titopoquito · 12-23-2008, 08:53 AM

You can try http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...gacy96-kernel/ and http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...gacy96-driver/. The driver you got is from summer, so there seem to be some inconsistencies with the newer 2.6.27 kernel. slackbuilds.org has a patch to solve this.

P.S.: Oh, and welcome to linuxquestions.org

phys · 12-23-2008, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joehnr

My nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] does not work.
I downloaded the driver from the nvidia site (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.07-pkg1),
but it fails to install.

(somehow I cannot give the log file, because it contains URL's ... and this is my first post)

I tried to install this driver for my old machine and got kernel compilation error at 60%. It was being compiled on Slack 12.1 successfully.

Then i did like below;

Exit from X (ctrl+alt+backspace), then

Code:

su

Code:

X -configure

Code:

mv /root/xorg.conf.new /root/xorg.conf

Code:

mv /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11

Code:

exit

Code:

startx

EDIT:

Now I did as in titopoquito's post, and nvidia driver has installed properly. Thanks to titopoquito and joehnr.

joehnr · 12-23-2008, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by titopoquito

You can try http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...gacy96-kernel/ and http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...gacy96-driver/. The driver you got is from summer, so there seem to be some inconsistencies with the newer 2.6.27 kernel. slackbuilds.org has a patch to solve this.

P.S.: Oh, and welcome to linuxquestions.org

Thanks twice!

I had to build the driver part as root. Because the script had some problems changing file ownership and/or permissions. I thought building could be done as normal user. Only make install or installpkg as root. But anyway... it works now!
:-)

cwwilson721 · 12-23-2008, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkelsen

Actually, the NVidia driver did give me some problems, but that's because I'm running an older card which requires the use of their "legacy" driver - which hasn't been updated for use with Linux 2.6.27...

But a few minutes' searching yielded this patch:

http://kanotix.com/files/173.14.12/N...2_2.6.27.patch

Which can easily be applied to the driver with this command:

Code:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg0.run --apply-patch NVIDIA_173.14.12_2.6.27.patch

Then, it was a simple matter of running the custom file generated by the above command to install the driver.

Once the driver was installed (but before changing to runlevel 4), I ran the command: nvidia-xconfig

And that was it. Job done.

None of this was related to Slackware, though. It was because NVidia haven't updated the older drivers for use with Linux 2.6.27. They want you to buy a new card... But this patch works, so they can go and take a flying leap.

And that was the ONLY problem I've encountered in Slackware-12.2 so far. I had set aside the whole day to configure things... but since I didn't have to do much, I went outside and fixed my bike instead!

Nice to know.

Can I add this to my sticky thread on dri in Linux? Might help some people...

/dev/me · 01-02-2009, 11:01 AM

What in the name of everything that is friendly and good is happening here??

I had sound! Out of the box!

Am I mistaking? Is my memory failing? Did I run alsaconf without knowing it? What on earth is going on here?

I'm glad both wired and wireless interfaces weren't recognized, that at least gave me the chance to modprobe something, anything...

___
Oh, and I know it's not Slackwares fault, but my automagic homebrew intrusion detection script has not blacklisted anything this year too. I only get yellow chicken ping sweeps that stay below its threshold, is nobody interested in brute forcing anymore? Come on! Not even so much as a port scan.

Oh *sigh* I'll be compiling 2.6.28 then...

lunaparadox · 12-03-2009, 05:47 PM

thats cool they made the jump I guess. Takes away the whole reason I used slackware to begin with though. when I started using linux kept reading if you really want to learn linux use slackware. so thats what I did and I loved it. If my dvd burner didn't crap out I was going to install version 12.2 but havn't yet. I find it kinda sad that it's not making ppl learn the hard way.

Alien Bob · 12-03-2009, 06:01 PM

Slackware was never about letting people learn "the hard way". It was meant to be, and still is, a very bare-bones Linux that sticks as close to the original source code as possible, thereby leaving as much control as possible to the user.

Linux becomes more user-friendly all the time, this is a natural process of maturing. Don't worry, there's still enough to be found in Slackware that you can configure to your heart's content.

Eric

lunaparadox · 12-04-2009, 11:48 AM

For the average and not so average person coming from a windows world slackware threw you in head first sink or swim. not hard but not easy like say a ubuntu that has had the hardware set for you for awhile. when I moved to linux I wanted to actually learn linux and slackware did that. your right it's "a very bare-bones Linux that sticks as close to the original source code as possible, thereby leaving as much control as possible to the user." most new users to linux from MS OS don't know how to run a compiler and to edit a file with a text editor to make your mouse work is scary at best. this in it self seems to this type of user the hard way even if it's not but let us not forget who we are talking about the average user.
That said when I came to linux I wasn't happy not understanding how it all worked. I wanted to understand it from the ground up so to speak and slackware did that. I'm happy that auto detect is there it will bring more users to slack

thats always a good thing. but that said for the person like me when I came to linux if slack would of had this I would have moved on to something more painful so to speak so I could learn what I was wanting to learn a new operating system to me that was totally and drastically different from what I was use to.

Nice sites by the way