Re: GeForce2 MX, drivers, X4...
The stock drivers for nvidia's cards depend on mesa for opengl, so you
will not get accelerated 3d graphics. whether you need/want them us up to
you, but here is what do do if you want them.
from nvidia's ftp there is a NVIDIA_KERNEL*.tgz and an NVIDIA_GLX*.tgz,
grab both and make sure the get the newest version. they both extract
into thier own directories, go into the NVIDIA_KERNEL directory and i
believe you jsut have to type make. this comples the driver as a module to
the kernel who's headers are in /usr/include/linux installs it and insmods
itself. Now go into the GLX directory. Here you want to read the FAQ you
can get off nvidia's website, and backup the libGL.so's and glx.so's that
this driver will overwrite. when your satisifed, type make and then go to
your XF86Config file. for your card, change the driver from "nv" to
"nvidia" and wherever the option is, you can do options "glx". I dont
know if its specific to TNT cards (what i have), but only 24 bit color is
supported, if i try 32 bit the console freezes and i have to telnet in and
reboot to get it back. I've successfully played Descent3 and Quake3 under
this setup with hardware accelerated openGL (a bit faster that they are
under windows for me even)
-casey
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> I took the binary (tgz) distribution from the XFree86 website and installed it
> over my existing X 3.3.x. It worked without problem. Didn't have to install anything
> from NVidia (according to the readme on the NVidia website, support for the Geforece2 MX
> is included in the newest 4.whatever release). I do realise however that I will be
> in trouble when I want to upgrade Debian, but I'll see about that when it happens :-)
> I definitely did not have to recompile my kernel (altough it might be necessary for the
> more advanced features?)
>
> Nico
>
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:52:31PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> > Well, the price was right and I grabbed a GeForce2 MX card... now I have no
> > X. I understood X 3.3.x support was nil, so started an X4 upgrade...!
> >
> > Now, I'm not sure how to proceed, I'm still downloading one packages,
> > (xserver-xfree86), but if I understand correctly, I need to compile the
> > kernel module and stuff. Has anyone done this?
> >
> > I try to compile the latest module (0.9-5) and get...
> >
> > cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done
> > cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory
> > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
> >
> > ? I don't understand the error. What just happened? Do I really need to
> > do this? This is quite different...
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Markevich <jmarkevich@mad.scientist.com>
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