Eben King wrote:
>Hey gang. I just installed an "eVGA personal cinema / Nvidia Geforce 4 MX
>440", from http://newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-122-163
>What should I do to XFree86 4.2.0 (no KDE or Gnome) to take full advantage
>of it? My current configuration (as of Fri Mar 11 16:27:22 EST 2005) is at
>http://24.94.123.65:81/XF86Config.gz . If it matters, I have kernel 2.4.29 .
>The tuner's not important to me (this card was sorta extra).
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First, download the drivers from nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7167.html ..
Second, read the README.txt
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7167/README.txt ..
But here are the quick steps (all as root):
1) shutdown the X-server... "telinit 3" should do it...if that doesn't
work change the value of "id:5:initdefault:" in /etc/inittab to
"id:3:initdefault:" this will boot you into a shell after a reboot.
2) chmod the nvidia.xxx.sh to make it executable "chmod +x
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run"
3) run the driver "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run"
4) follow instructions..
5) after the driver finishes:
a) change "driver nvidia"
b) remove "load dri" and "load GLcore"
c) add "load glx"
6) now type "startx"
7) change your inittab file back to "id:5:initdefault:" or "telinit 5"
That should work...you already have the correct settings in your conf
file but there is a lot of stuff going on there I don't know about.
If you upgrade your kernal, you will have to go through the process
again. If this doesn't work, I would start lookin at your install log
(at the end of the nvidia install it tells you where it is at) and post
errors to the nvidia forum, it is pretty good.
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