Re: Geforce4 mx440 problem - Thanks
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:38:15AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
Thanks, I'll check out nvidia-...-src. I was using Mozilla for the
downloads and checked tar -xvf file.tar without success (Note: tar xvzf
NVIDIA-kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz worked perfectly, only GLX failed.) But I got the
complete GLX file by following Jeremy's suggestion and the display is
working fine though, as I have just reported in posted in a help request, it doesn't load at bootup.
> 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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