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Re: [Sheflug] nVidia
Hi
On Monday 14 April 2003 9:24 am, M wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:30:58 +0100
>
> Ian Porter <ian.porter3 [at] ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have just got myself a new computer with a nVidia TI 4200 graphics
> > card :), but I have tried to install the drivers
> > (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run) for it from the nvidia web site and
> > once I have changed the line from "nv" to "nvidia" in the XF86Config-4
> > file and restart X it always displays a black screen and does nothing
> > else :(.
> >
> > I have included the XF86Config-4 file, of course with the "nv"
> > selected because other wish I would not be able to startx :).
> >
> > Just wondering if there is any silly mistake that I have done ?
> >
> > I have checked the lspci -n and there is a "10de"
> > (01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0281 (rev a1)
> > which means that I have a nvidia card :).
> >
> > When I quit out of X I get the error of
> > (EE) [GLX] : Failed to add GLX Extension (NVIDIA) XFree86 driver not
> > found
> >
> > Any advice will be greatfully recieved :)
>
> You could check if the kernel module is installed.
> lsmod
> you should see nvidia
Yep the nvidia module was installed
> also you could comment out the glx module loading just to see if it will
> start up without it.
Have checked that out already, but still no luck :(
> If you want to catch all the errors you can do
> startx 2> xerrs.log
> and ctrl alt backspace to exit X...
Tried both of these, but it did do nothing :(, just wondering how am I able to
check that the card is in the AGP slot, because on the harddrive it says that
it is a PCI slot ? and also with the lspci it is listed in there ? would this
be the case ?
Cheers
Ian
>
> You could check:
> http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20000811/linux_geforce-07.html
> and make sure the links and file dates look right.
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