Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14
If you don't want fast 3d the nv module in X 4.0 will suit you fine....
I would suggest that you try the nvidia drivers though...from
www.nvidia.com or apt-get nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src from unstable
Once compiled and installed I get 3d perfromance on par with windows
My problem (discussed below) was that I was using gcc-3.0 when compiling
nvidia's drivers..when my kernel was compilied with 2.95 if you use the
same compiler for both you should be good... Nvidia told me that newer
versions of the driver will detect this so people won't go through what
I went through..
As to X 4.0... I don't know if they work with X4.0 might have to upgrade
to 4.1 ...
Kyle
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 18:40, David Teague wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a
> fairly late 2.4 kernel. Am I going to have trouble? Xfree claims to
> support this card in X 4.0
>
> Am I in for it, as Mother used to say?
>
> Am I smoking somethin'? Or should I be?
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 15 Nov 2001, Kyle Girard wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 13:18, Sean wrote:
> > > I'm currently using the 2.4.15pre4 source from kernel.org, but this also
> > > worked with 2.4.14 (also from kernel.org). All I did to get my nvidia
> > > kernel module to work was:
> > >
> > > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src
> > > cd /usr/src/linux
> > > make-kpkg modules_image
> > >
> > > This created a /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-<kernel version>_1.0.1541 deb,
> > > which I then installed via dpkg -i.
> > >
> > > after that I did a depmod -a, and modprobe NVdriver
> >
> >
> > I used gcc 2.95.4 this time and got a little farther.... module
> > compiles/inserts fine but now when I try and start X I get the following
> > message
> >
> > (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xe3000000,0x1000000)
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate LUT context DMA
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
> >
> > My roomate who's running an almost identical machine except with a
> > geforce 2 doesn't have any problems...
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about submitting a bug to
> > nvidia....
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On a side note, I am not using gcc-3.0.2, but rather 2.95.4. The few
> > > times I've tried to use the gcc-3.0 compiler to compile the kernel I was
> > > left with very unstable kernels. So perhaps that could be part of your
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Also don't forget to install the nvidia-glx package.
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:47, Kyle Girard wrote:
> > > > > Which 2.4.14 is it that you are using? The source direct from kernel.org? or
> > > > > the Debian package? (I'm using direct from kernel.org)
> > > >
> > > > Here's my info:
> > > >
> > > > Debian (sid)
> > > > 2.4.14 -- from .deb
> > > > Xfree86 4.1.0
> > > > Nvidia TNT
> > > > gcc 3.0.2
> > > >
> > > > I can get the module to compile... but I get unresolved symbols if I use
> > > > the includes from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/include instead of
> > > > headers from /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.14/include
> > > >
> > > > What are you gcc are you using?
> > > >
> > > > kyle
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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