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Re: Geforce4 mx440 problem



On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:57:12AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> I remebered earlier posting to the effect that it was necessary to get 
> the drivers for Gefore4  form nvidia so I downloaded 
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz and ran tar 
> xvzf on each of them.  Unpacking GLX failed with the message that gzip 
> had encountered an unexpected end-of-file.  I repeated the download and 
> tried again with the same result.  I repeated the download with an 
> earlier posting of these files and tried again with the same result.

You're using Netscape?  It silently decompresses files without changing
the extension.  'tar -xvf file.tar' should work.

Also, have you had a look at nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src?  They
automate most of the stuff required to get the NVidia drivers working.

-rob

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