Slackware 9.0
 

I have been working in Slackware for some time and I have fixed a lot of stuff with the help of this forum, but I need some more help. I want to know how to get my Nvidia Vanta (Compaq) Video Card to work perfectly in Linux. I have been comparing graphics and they are not the same in Windows as in Linux.
I also need help configuring my audio. I can't play any CDs.

XPediTioN

What sound card do you have (and chipset)? Does that Nvidia splash scrren come up when you start X?

I don't get any splash screen

Did you read the docs on the nvidia site? In the section named installing from source, it tells you what you need to know. If you did read it, did you edit your XF86Config file?

Let me offer you some advice. You have mentioned your audio problem in like 4 threads now. Try to keep it to one thread, or else the people that are trying to help you are probably going to suggest things that have already been suggested before because they haven't seen the 3 other threads where you are posting the SAME PROBLEM.

What drivers do I have to get so it works on Linux?

Goto http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4363 and download the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run file.

The last time I installed there where two files, the kernel and the glx (?) files. I had to do an install from source and edit my XF86Config file. This is one file so I will have to read up on it.

I can't install it because of a kernel thing. Another question, Is NVIDIA Riva Vanta TNT the same as NVIDIA Vanta (Compaq)?

I want to know how to access to the internet with my PCTEL modem (already configured0, so that I can get the kernel thing for the Nvidia Driver. Another thing, why sometimes when I connect using my modem it freezes while dialing. Do I have to do something else that just install the modem driver?

Is is ppp-go?
root@slackware:~# ppp-go
-bash: ppp-go: command not found

I read somewhere that the pctel drivers are buggy and, in my experience, that's certainly true. I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about that.

As far as ppp-go, that's the shell-script for pppd (I think) and is what you need. Why it's showing as not found, I don't know. If you don't have it, something's gotten messed up.

Have you run pppsetup?

can you help me. I want to know how to get to the internet without being on a Window Manager.

Well, probably not. But I'll try. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and I don't much about fixing it if it doesn't. Install the system, install the drivers (which I have to download from another system, obviously), run pppsetup, type ppp-go as root, switch to another tty and run Lynx as user. Those are the only steps I know. I'm guessing you got the system installed but there may be a problem if the ppp-go script is missing. You said you'd configured the modem? That means you downloaded the drivers, compiled them, insmod'ed them, and run minicom and gotten a positive response? So then run pppsetup and basically fill in the info - isp, dns, etc. Then run ppp-go and hope it connects. If you haven't got the file, do you have pppd, itself?

(And as far as details, I'm kind of fuzzy. For instance, I remember running minicom but just did a paint-by-numbers to get a response and can't remember what I typed.)

-- And keep in mind, this is coming from someone who rarely got his dialup working and can't get his DSL working, either. I'm on Knoppix once again, because I can't make Slack's DSL work more than once.

I want to know how to get the driver working because I am tired that I am not getting the graphics I want. Please help me.

Wait - now I'm confused. You've obviously got a connection, even if it's on a Windows box. Why not just download the video drivers to that and then transfer it over to the Linux box, or the Linux partition if it's one box? Then you can have the video straightened out and work on the connection issues after you've solved that issue. Sounds like you're kind of trying to resolve several issues at once, which will make them all harder. Or am I missing parts of the puzzle?