Re: GeForce2 MX, drivers, X4...
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:47:02AM -0600, Casey Webster wrote:
> 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.
Aha, I didn't know that (didn't try anything 3d yet anyway). Thanks
>
> 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
Yep I noticed the 32 bit problem too.
> 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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