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nVidia GeForce + Linux
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I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 |
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"Juan" wrote in message ...
[...] First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). The IA32 version is the right choice. [...] If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. There's no need to touch /etc/inittab. Use telinit 3 to go to run level 3 and telinit 5 to go back to run level 5. There could very well be some level 5 processes that need running before the X server can work properly, hence it's better to use the telinit command. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much The installation was successful and you've set up XF86Config correctly. Possibly the card is horribly slow anyway - you don't say what kind of MX 64MB card it is. It's not an MX 200 is it? Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz |
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On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote:
Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. -- Thank you, Kenneth W. Zahorec Discover GNU/Linux today and free yourself! |
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"The Black Wibble" wrote in message
... Ken Zahorec wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9, 3D support for NVIDIA is specifically not supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html NVIDIA (2D only) -- TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 |
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"Mark A" wrote in message ...
I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9, 3D support for NVIDIA is specifically not supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html NVIDIA (2D only) -- TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 That would be referring to the stock nv driver included with the distribution, not nvidia's one from www.nvidia.com. Anyway, before Fedora I had my graphics card running with acceleration on RH9. Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz |
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Ken Zahorec wrote:
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. Does /var/log/XFree86.0.log offer a clue? See if adding Option "NvAGP" "1" to Section "Device" in /etc/X11/XF86Config makes a difference. Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (15 x 200MHz) MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora Core 1 PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me replace org.nz with net.nz |
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Mark A wrote:
"The Black Wibble" wrote in message ... Ken Zahorec wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9, 3D support for NVIDIA is specifically not supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html NVIDIA (2D only) -- TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 The Latest Nividia driver for IA32 works fine on RH9, latest Kernel. You DO have to compile/build it so the kernel sources must be present. For all the other problems I'd also suggest rebuilding the driver for your machine/kernel. (Any software that essential to the machine's functioning I'd recommend compiling rather than installing from an RPM or .run.) That plus adding/deleting the entries in XF86Config as mentioned work fine for me at least. gluck with that jan |
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Jan Soldaat wrote: Mark A wrote: "The Black Wibble" wrote in message ... Ken Zahorec wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9, 3D support for NVIDIA is specifically not supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html NVIDIA (2D only) -- TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 The Latest Nividia driver for IA32 works fine on RH9, latest Kernel. You DO have to compile/build it so the kernel sources must be present. For all the other problems I'd also suggest rebuilding the driver for your machine/kernel. (Any software that essential to the machine's functioning I'd recommend compiling rather than installing from an RPM or .run.) That plus adding/deleting the entries in XF86Config as mentioned work fine for me at least. gluck with that jan I finally got mine to work. I had the same symptoms - blank screen. After some digging I finally found the answer (at least for me). I had to disable the 8xAGP. After I did that, I no longer had a blank screen. Running glxgears showed a vast increase in frame rate. I also ran TuxRacer and it worked fine. I just downloaded the file from the nvidia site and ran it in a shell like the README says. It took care of everything and I just had to update the XF86Config file. Oh, my system is RH9 To disable the AGP you add the line: Option "NvAGP" "0" to your XF86Config file. It was not clear to me where it should go. I read in one place where it needed to go in the Device section for the video card and I read somewhere else it needed to go in the Screen section. So, I put it in both. This is mentioned in appendix f of the README. Here is what my Device and Screen sections look like: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" VideoRam 131072 Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV" Option "NvAGP" "0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "NvAGP" "0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" " 1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Like I said, this worked for me. Charlie |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:49:39 +0100, Jan Soldaat wrote:
Mark A wrote: "The Black Wibble" wrote in message ... Ken Zahorec wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Juan wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and have installed Linux Fedora (Red Hat). I've got nvidia geforce 4 mx 64mb video card. Linux recognizes me the card as a "nvidia Geforce 4" and configure it in "Device" section of XF86Config with "nv" driver. With this default settings display in Gnome and KDE works fine. Problem is that i cannot use the acceleration of the card, so OpenGl games as Chromium and Tuxracer run very slowly. I've downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from nvidia.com. I've spend hours installing it, and i've read the whole READE file that came with the drivers, but i got no succed in making the acceleration work. First of all, I've got an 32 bits AMD athlon. When I downloaded drivers from nvidia.com, I had to chose from IA32, IA64 and AMD64, but there was not an AMD32 file... I've tried with IA32. (And i dont get any error message during instalation). So, I execute the .run file of the nvidia drivers, so the drivers install ok. Next, I edit XF86Config file and make the changes the README file says: I write "nvidia" as driver in "Device" section. I write "Load "glx"" in "Module" section. I erase "Load "gri"" and "Load "glcore"" in "Module" section. that way, XF86Config is propperly configured attempting to the README file. After these configurations I've experienced that X desktops works fine as before, but hardware acceleration does not work. OpelGL games get on runnig very slow. If I boot the system in runlevel 3 and type startx in the console, screen turns black and it seems to hang. If I directly boot in runlevel 5, just before desktop appears, nVidia logo is shown on the screen. Now, I don't know what to do to get the geforce acceleration run... i've searched but goy no info... people in the news seem to make work theyr nvidia card following the steps I've followed with no succed... Can anyboy of you help me?? Thanks very much --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 First of all I would like to say that I am having the same problem. I also am running fedora. I have also tried suse 9.0. Now I do believe there is a problem with the driver on AMD with Geforce 4. I have also successfully updated the kernel on the suse system and get the same symptoms you describe. I get nvidia flash screen but no 3d support. GL games run very slow. I am seeing another problem as well when I switch to terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2). The terminal session is all goofed up with large fuzzy font. I have to reboot to recover. Initial black screen when X starts requires me to kill the X server and let it restart before I can get a run level 5 login screen. I have reverted back to using the stock "nv" driver for now with fedora. Don't understand, I have installed nvidia drivers for some time now had have not had any problems. I currently believe problem is on AMD platform only. Nvidia needs to fix this. I have installed this latest 5328 driver successfully on a suse 9.0 Pentium system w/Geforce 2. I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9, 3D support for NVIDIA is specifically not supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhl9_hcl.html NVIDIA (2D only) -- TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Go, GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 The Latest Nividia driver for IA32 works fine on RH9, latest Kernel. You DO have to compile/build it so the kernel sources must be present. For all the other problems I'd also suggest rebuilding the driver for your machine/kernel. (Any software that essential to the machine's functioning I'd recommend compiling rather than installing from an RPM or .run.) That plus adding/deleting the entries in XF86Config as mentioned work fine for me at least. gluck with that jan OK, Got it working with newly posted driver... Now it's working for me. Running like a top! No changes required other than documented in the README. I scrapped the 5328 used the very latest driver which has recently been updated on the nvidia site (5336-pkg1). All appears to be working now. Open GL games like Tux Racer and Chromium are playing great. Thank you Nvidia for posting a driver update! That solved everything. They must have addressed the GEForce 4 / Athlon issues in the earlier version. I am convinced there were issues with Athlon in the earlier 5238 driver. Just move to the latest version 5336. -- Thank you, Kenneth W. Zahorec Discover GNU/Linux today and free yourself! |
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