Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

[Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com>]

	Hi Dwanye,

	I hope the following will work for you. First, I should let you know
that I use an older version of the Nvidia drivers, because the have been
very stable for me and and UT wigs out when I try to go from full screen
into a windowed mode with it. The latest seem to work fine for a friend
of mine who has an AMD motherboard(different chipset than mine). It
seems every time Nvidia comes out with a newer version it break
compatibilty on one of our chipsets and makes it work on the other. I'm
using NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769(and kernel of course), fyi(for your
information), unpacked from tarball. I go into the kernel one and do a
make clean, then make. In the glx i just do a make. Then I make sure the
following directories look like below, if you see anything different,
and you probably will, at least in /usr/X11R6/lib, then remove the files
that are not shown in the listing.


c243491-a:/home$ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jul 21 22:33 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.0.769
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jul 21 22:33 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.769
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       218388 Jul 21 22:33 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.769
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jul 21 22:30 /usr/lib/libGLU.a -> ../X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jul 21 22:30 /usr/lib/libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jul 21 21:43 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Jul 21 21:43 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 -> ../X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jul 21 22:33 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.1.0.769
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2075568 Jul 21 22:33 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.769



c243491-a:/home$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       551646 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       693832 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jul 21 21:43 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       490796 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        26252 Jul 13 00:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.a




(wrapping off on above listing intentionally)



	Hope that helps,


	Jimmy Richards



On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:45:25AM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get the nvidia binary-only drivers to work with
> XFree86 4.1 (I know I shouldn't use an nVIDIA card, but it came with the
> computer)?
> 
> If not, does someone know a procedure for getting and downgrading to
> XFree86 4.0?
> 
> -- 
> Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net