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Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem



On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alvin Smith wrote:

..
> > > >     sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run

...

> As far as the video driver is concerned, a driver called 
> "nv" (http://www.xfree86.org/current/nv.4.html) will be used and installed by 
> default for the nvidia card.  If you need special features, look into the 
> "nvidia" driver (http://www.desktop-linux.net/nVidia.htm), but you don't need 
> it to use the card.

thre is nv and nvidia... 

nvidia is needed if you want 3D support

the above NVIDIA installer sucks ... it doesnt know how to get
rid of the old nvidia files

you have to manually clean it up 
	- if you use the *.run pkg to create the nvidia drivers,
	it'd probably be todays date
 
	- check and move all the old nvidia drivers aside

	find /lib /usr -name \*nvidia\* -ls

http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.nvidia.install.txt

and you might need to fix glut, dri, drm, ..  too
	http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/X11.GLUT.install.txt

c ya
alvin



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