Re: Nvidia driver installation
From: NunYa Bidness (nunyabidness_at_nunyabidness.org)
Date: 10/25/05
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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:16:42 GMT
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:55:11 GMT, Henk Oegema <on4hso@amsat.org> Gave
us:
>NunYa Bidness wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:11:11 GMT, Henk Oegema <on4hso@amsat.org> Gave
>> us:
>>
>>>After studying carefully the thread from yesterday (3D hardware support
>>>not available) and reading the NVidia website I have made an installation
>>>procedure for the legacy chipset device PCI ID 0x150 (NVIdia GeForce2GTS /
>>>GeForce2Pro to be used in SuSe10.0
>>>
>>>I would like you to have a look at it and comment if ok (or not ok. and
>>>changes to made)
>>>
>>>1. download driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>>
>> cool
>>
>>>2. open a kosole window
>>
>> no... QUIT x
>
>Here is where I have the problem. I don't quite understand how to QUIT X.
>How do I do that when I have the KDE desktop in front of me?
Well, you could try Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc.
>
>Do I need to restart the pc with a command option?
>>
>> go completely to run level 3.
>>
>>>3. # su (and type password)
>>
>> Seems fair enough... root access is required.
>>
>>>4. # init 3
>>
>> I suppose, but I quit x, or never start it until I complete these
>> tasks.
>>
>>>5. # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run -q
>>>6. # sax2 -m 0=nvidia
>>
>> Both correct.
>>
>>>7. # init 5 (to switch back to originally runlevel ??? or not necessary ?)
>>>8. #exit
>>>9. #exit
>>
>> Not sure about system state when you do this.
>>
>>>10. edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf section "Device" the driver name "nv" to
>>>driver name "nvidia"
>>
>> It should already be, but checking it is good.
>>
>>>11. add the following entries to /etc/udev/static_devices.txt
>>> nvidia c 195 0 666
>>> nvidia c 195 1 666
>>> nvidia c 195 2 666
>>> nvidia c 195 3 666
>>> nvidia c 195 4 666
>>> nvidia c 195 5 666
>>> nvidia c 195 6 666
>>> nvidia c 195 7 666
>>> nvidiactl1 c 195 255 666
>>
>> I have no idea what this refers to and did not see it in the doc I
>> read.
>>
>
>This is written in
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub.suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO
>under chapter 19.
>
>
>>>
>>>Please comment.
>>>
>>>Henk
>>>
>> The procedure is absolutely wrong AFAICS. You cannot install it
>> from within x-windows.
>>
>> You must be at run level 3 to perform the driver install.
>>
>> That doesn't mean still having x up in another place.
>>
>> I make all of my Linux installs start the machine at run level 3.
>
>How do you do that?
It asks during the install whether you want a graphical log in or
not.
>> All I do once Linux is up after Iog on is type:
>>
>> startx -- -dpi 100
>
>What is the meaning of this command ?
It starts the x-window system. That is the system that you run KDE
under.
It starts it at a high resolution font for larger desktop arrays,
such as 1280x1024.
>>
>> This way, all I need to do to perform these types of tasks is quit x,
>> or do it before starting x. Every install of Linux I have ever done
>> that gave me a choice, I chose text mode log on and run level 3 start.
>>
>> Logging on in text, and subsequently typing in a startx command
>> doesn't bother me a bit.
>>
>> I don't see why the script wouldn't work though. Have you tried it?
>
>I haven't tried it yet. Want to be sure that the procedure is correct before
>I start doing it.
>
>Henk
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