Re: GeForce4 MX
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:13:10AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote:
> > > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows
> > > system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv
> > > driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at
> > > least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says. Do i really
> > > need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it?
> >
> > I can't tell you if you really need a new driver or not but I have been
> > having some problems myself. This is how I solved it:
> >
> > - my NVdriver is loaded as a module.
> > - lsmod showed that after I updated my pcmcia-cs package the
> > NVdriver was no longer loaded (no idea)
>
> Woah, that's weird...
Yes. There are a lot of things that don't make sense about debian on my
laptop. Including why usb, parallel printing and cdburning won't work.
I've got a bunch of people I'm trying to trouble shoot various things with
and almost all of them are at as much of a loss as me. I'm also not sure
if my wireless card is broken or if it simply doesn't work yet. It
receives signals under win2000 but can't connect to the internet (it may
be an XP driver than I'm using but Acer isn't giving me any clues).
> > (This site also recommends installing nvidia-glx but I can't "find" the
> > package. There's a reference to it in dpkg but it's no longer found. It
> > doesn't /seem/ to matter...)
>
> nvidia-glx is the package that gets built from nvidia-glx-src. It
> contains the new version of libGL, amongst other things.
Ahh.
> > cd /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
> > make
>
> Did this really work? Last time I played with these drivers, they
> dropped tarballs in /usr/src/. To build the kernel module, I just used
> make-kpkg like normal, and to build the userland GL library I just cd'd
> into it's dir and ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us'.
Yes it really worked. But I was trying to restore something that used to
be there, so it's possible I didn't need to do all the steps I did. But
that's seriously what my notes say that I did. I definitely did not use
dpkg-buildpackage. Never seen that before. me == newbie.
> > Unfortunately I don't understand how to load the module automatically each
> > time I restart my computer. Rumour has it you can do so by editing
> > /etc/modules (note do not touch /etc/modules.conf)
>
> Yep, you're right.
Well I might be right and you might be right, but my laptop doesn't think
so. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do something else but adding the
driver name to /etc/modules and rebooting does not load the driver.
emma
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