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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
