Wulfy wrote:
I've been trying for ages to install the drivers for my nVidia card. [1]
I tried the debs in Sarge. They wanted to install the 2.4.27 kernel.
I'm using the 2.6.8. [2]
I tried the installer from nVidia, one of the 8000 series drivers. it
worked! Everything was installed. When X started, it bombed out with
"No screens found". I dug around in the logs and found that the driver
I was using didn't work for my card. I needed the legacy drivers.
At this point I gave up, until today. I went and got the 1.0.7174
driver installer from nVidia... it wouldn't work. It said that the
kernel needed to be "configured" and couldn't find the kernel source
(it's in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8). I've attached the log.
What do I need to do to get this damn driver to install? Short of
buying a new video card.
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I have exactly the same card. And neither the 8* series nor 7174 will
work! But download 7167 and that one *will* load! Try it!
I run a two seater Debian: 2 monitors/keyboards/mice. One monitor on an
AGP TNT2 and the other on a PCI MX-440. The TNT2 is superior in
everything *except* 3D acceleration! Who cares! (Except if you're a
gamer and then get on the MX-440 monitor) Better colors, no shadows.
Even the MX-440 I had to change with that damn fan on it: put a heatsink
on it. Those nVidia fans start screaming after a few months!
So to state the obvious:
1. download the 7167 driver.
2. If you have < 2.6.16 just run NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run
3. If you have >= 2.6.16 you need to patch the latter with
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt
4. Make sure you have the right kernel headers for your kernel! He wants
those and he will surely tell you if he doesn't find them!
5. If the kernel headers are there he *will* compile and *will* install
for your TNT2 card. And X *will* start with the nvidia driver!
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PS. This nVidia game is ridiculous of course, but the world lives by it,
silly world. This quote from the Con Kolivas kernel (which I use:
2.6.16-ck4) list:
( here: http://bhhdoa.org.au/pipermail/ck/2006-April/005782.html )
On 4/3/06, Imran Jamadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
May be we all should bug Nvidia, and go to their forums and file a
bug report and stuff,
they need to be poked, as Nvidia is very lazy on Linux especially
in relation to SLI code.
This isn't exactly true; like a lot of tech companies they have NDAs &
licenses with other tech companies that then prevent them from
disclosing certain useful information. Unfortunately for graphics cards
there's a *lot* of cross-licensed proprietary information particularly
where hardware accelleration of both 2D & 3D data is concerned.
This is why Microsoft are moving Windows towards total graphical
domination. It has nothing to do with making the interface easier &
more intuitive (if it were, they'd dump that piece of garbage and
license MacOS X ;) or utilising the current capabilities of graphics
hardware. It has everything to do with the fact that closed source
drivers hide (or "satisfy", depending on your viewpoint) the legal
implications of releasing drivers at all. Since almost all their
competitors in the OS space rely on open source drivers, they instantly
have a serious, zero-cost advantage over the competition.
Companies like nVidia are doing what they can to work within the legal
parameters they're forced into to provide drivers for non-Microsoft
platforms (so the inevitable obscelecence takes longer), but when you
see that in the past 10 years we've lost:
a) DEC Alpha
b) SPARC
c) MIPS
d) PowerPC
e) whatever the hell HPUX ran on - come on, its dead
(for MIPS & PowerPC I'm specifically referring to SGI and Apple as the
largest noticable vendors of these platforms for general
workstation/server use) and that Sun are (or were) considering dumping
UltraSPARC for amd64, the majority of computer systems on the planet
now, in just a decade, have switched from being unable to run Windows to
able to run Windows with absolutely zero technical effort from
Microsoft. This places them in the realm where driver development will
focus on desktop systems, and Microsoft's illegally-obtained monopoly in
this arena means those drivers will be for Windows.
Scary, huh?
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