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voidmain:
If you have an nVidia card I would *highly* recommend installing those drivers. It makes a huge difference. The nVidia code included with stock XFree sucks because nVidea is fairly tight lipped when it comes to giving out details on their cards.
You basically download two RPMs and install them and make one simple little change to your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Once you do it you'll be pissed at yourself for not having done it sooner. What model is your card, I can check and make sure it's supported by the driver. Also is your AMD chip an Athlon? And you say you are not running the stock kernel. What kernel are you running then?
[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Siplus:
ok, i'm not at my house right now, i'm in my programming class, so i'll check and edit this post when i get back:
Athlon 1.1ghz i think
Nvidia Geforce 4 ti 4100, 128 mb ram, AGP
384 mb of system ram
kernal=2.4.18-18.8.0 (checked and this is the one i'm running)
edit:
thanks for the help void main. if you need any more info, just ask. also: when i was at the nvidia site last time, i didn't see any rpms, where would i find the driver rpms?
[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Siplus ]
Ice-9:
If you use Red Hat 8.0 you won't find any pre-made rpm's, you'll have to download src.rpm's and build them yourself.
It's not difficult at all, even I could do it.
Go here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1890&page=2
and follow the instructions, you'll be set in about 5 minutes.
Edit: typos
[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]
voidmain:
It's even easier than that article shows. Instead of doing the "rpm -i xxx.rpm", changing directories and doing the "rpmbuild -bb xxx.spec" you can do it with one caommand "rpmbuild --rebuild xxx.rpm" which will unpack and build the binary RPM automatically. Then just install the resulting NV* binaries (from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory). But of course you still have to make the minor change to the XF86Config file.
Siplus:
i went to the site ice9 gave a link to, dl the 2 files, and tried it uptill this happened:
quote: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.src.rpm (at top of page)
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm (at bottom of page)
Save these files to your machine. Now, open up a terminal (konsole, gnome-terminal) and become root (also called superuser). Change to the directory containing the packages and install them with:
cd /path/to/packages
rpm -i NVIDIA* (or rpm -ivh NVIDIA* for verbose output and to print hash marks [#] indicating installation progress)
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but when i did it, i got this
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any thoughts?
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