Hi Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a fairly late 2.4 kernel. Am I going to have trouble? Xfree claims to support this card in X 4.0
Am I in for it, as Mother used to say? Am I smoking somethin'? Or should I be? David On 15 Nov 2001, Kyle Girard wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 13:18, Sean wrote: > > I'm currently using the 2.4.15pre4 source from kernel.org, but this also > > worked with 2.4.14 (also from kernel.org). All I did to get my nvidia > > kernel module to work was: > > > > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src > > cd /usr/src/linux > > make-kpkg modules_image > > > > This created a /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-<kernel version>_1.0.1541 deb, > > which I then installed via dpkg -i. > > > > after that I did a depmod -a, and modprobe NVdriver > > > I used gcc 2.95.4 this time and got a little farther.... module > compiles/inserts fine but now when I try and start X I get the following > message > > (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xe3000000,0x1000000) > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate LUT context DMA > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > > My roomate who's running an almost identical machine except with a > geforce 2 doesn't have any problems... > > Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about submitting a bug to > nvidia.... > > > > > > On a side note, I am not using gcc-3.0.2, but rather 2.95.4. The few > > times I've tried to use the gcc-3.0 compiler to compile the kernel I was > > left with very unstable kernels. So perhaps that could be part of your > > problem. > > > > Also don't forget to install the nvidia-glx package. > > > > Sean > > > > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:47, Kyle Girard wrote: > > > > Which 2.4.14 is it that you are using? The source direct from > > > > kernel.org? or > > > > the Debian package? (I'm using direct from kernel.org) > > > > > > Here's my info: > > > > > > Debian (sid) > > > 2.4.14 -- from .deb > > > Xfree86 4.1.0 > > > Nvidia TNT > > > gcc 3.0.2 > > > > > > I can get the module to compile... but I get unresolved symbols if I use > > > the includes from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/include instead of > > > headers from /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.14/include > > > > > > What are you gcc are you using? > > > > > > kyle > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > > > GPG Public Key available: http://nimh.freeshell.org/gpg_key.txt > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
