nvidia experts

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> We know you're out there! Â I'm recovering an old system (SuSE 9.1)
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Mother of all Hard Disk Crashes. Â I've pulled all of the nvidia
>>>>>> drivers
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> the old drive to the new and correctly copied over XF86Config and use
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> "nvidia" name in the Device settings. Â But I don't get the nVidia
>>>>>> splash
>>>>>> screen that used to come up at boot. Â I seem to remember that I had
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> load
>>>>>> the nvidia driver into the kernel, perhaps with modprobe or something.
>>>>>> Can the experts please weigh in?
>>>>> I guess I qualify as one of said experts. Â Assuming that you
>>>>> successfully installed the latest available NVIDIA driver package from
>>>>> NVIDIA's website, and then ran 'nvidia-xconfig' (as root), then please
>>>>> attach your X log ( /var/log/Xorg.0.log ).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> More detail please.
>>>> I /think/ I installed the driver (received a message that it was already
>>>> installed when I installed it from runlevel 3).
>>>> Is nvidia-xconfig a script? Â Is it something from SAX2?
>>> I'm not sure why this matters. Â nvidia-xconfig has no relationship to
>>> the abomination known as SAX2. Â It ships with the official nvidia
>>> driver package. Â Did you run it as I requested?
>> Yes I did, and I got squat. Â That is why my question is reasonable.
>> There is
>> /usr/bin/nvidia-installer
>> /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
>> /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall
>>
>> The driver I downloaded, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run  (which requires
>> a terminal, not to be run from X) said that I need to then go into Sax2 to
>> install nvidia. Â I'm following the instructions that the app gives me. Â That
>> is why the question about Sax2.
>>
>> And Sax2 complained that it could not find
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
>>
>> which happens to be on the /old/ failed drive.
>>
>> However, after much thrashing around, the nvidia splash screen now appears
>> on boot, so that is what I /think/ I need. Â The objective of all of this is
>> to install OpenGL in a CAD program that requires nvidia. I've not yet tried
>> to do that, but I think I'm closer.
> 
> I'm afraid to ask.  What kind of ancient GPU do you have in that
> system that you are using the oldest legacy driver in existence?
> 
> 


Riva TNT2 Model 64 something.  It works very nicely.
It is on the motherboard that I bought from Vu.



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