[sclug] NVidia and Mandriva

Thu May 12 17:59:57 UTC 2005

>Hi all
>
>Firstly, I feel an introduction is in order.
>  
>

Nice to meet you!

>My question is, has anyone had good results from using NVIDIA and their 
>proprietary drivers?
>

I've recently been through the mill installing the nvidia drivers (off 
their website) on my Mandriva LE2005 system. It's quite straight forward 
once the necessary libraries have been installed from the Mandriva CDs 
and the kernel module can compile, but there are a few things you need 
to do that the instructions don't mention. If you visit here 
<http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=36097&sid=7d58d4518f3246e52bfff80bdad51a5c> 
you can read all the bits that the nvidia documentation has left out. So 
far I've had no problems running it (I have a GeForce4 MX440 card).

Good Luck!

Neil.

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>
> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] An introduction and some questions
> From:
> Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk>
> Date:
> Wed, 11 May 2005 22:36:11 +0100 (BST)
> To:
> Alan Hawes <alan at haweshouse.co.uk>
>
> To:
> Alan Hawes <alan at haweshouse.co.uk>
> CC:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
>
> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Alan Hawes wrote:
>
>> I've recently installed the proprietary ATI drivers for XORG 6.8 and 
>> have
>> found them less than stable ( I'll be surprised if I manage to 
>> complete this
>> email!!).
>
>
> [snip]
>
>> My question is, has anyone had good results from using NVIDIA and their
>> proprietary drivers?
>
>
> They used to work well for me whilst I was running RH7.3 and RH8.0, but
> since upgrading to FC3, I've had to linger on an older version of the
> drivers AND patch the kernel AND patch nVidia's kernel driver. This is 
> on a
> Toshiba laptop using the GeForce 2go chipset.
>
> Quite honestly, I'd advise playing games either under Windows or on a
> console, and using the Free (i.e. non-proprietary) ATI and nVidia drivers
> for anything else 3D related. ATI have also been more co-operative 
> with Free
> software developers than nVidia, which deserves reward in my book.
>
>> Alan
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] An introduction and some questions
> From:
> James Fidell <james at cloud9.co.uk>
> Date:
> Wed, 11 May 2005 23:13:14 +0100
> To:
> Alan Hawes <alan at haweshouse.co.uk>
>
> To:
> Alan Hawes <alan at haweshouse.co.uk>
> CC:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
>
>Quoting Alan Hawes (alan at haweshouse.co.uk):
>
>  
>
>>My question is, has anyone had good results from using NVIDIA and their 
>>proprietary drivers?
>>    
>>
>
>I've had no problems using the Nvidia drivers with the GF2 card in my
>mythtv box.  I believe it's correct however that not all possible
>features work correctly -- I'm sure I've seen people posting on the
>mythtv list saying that certain X11 options have to be disabled if you're
>using the Nvidia drivers.  I'm also fairly certain that not all features
>are supported on older cards (eg. It used to be possible to set the
>amount of overscan on TV-out on my card.  In later drivers the way that
>worked changed, and overscan is no longer supported for my card.)
>
>James
>  
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] 3c509
> From:
> Darren Davison <darren at davisononline.org>
> Date:
> Wed, 11 May 2005 23:58:31 +0100
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
>
>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:07 +0100, Dickon Hood wrote:
>  
>
>>I'd upgrade the hardware to something faintly modern if you want
>>anything better out of it.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for the reply - I don't feel so bad about extracting it from
>underneath all the other machines if I know there's no soft option.
>
>Cheers!
>
>  
>
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] An introduction and some questions
> From:
> Chris Hannam <chrish at flamingmonkeys.co.uk>
> Date:
> Thu, 12 May 2005 01:02:53 +0100
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
>
>
>> Quoting Alan Hawes (alan at haweshouse.co.uk):
>>
>>
>>> My question is, has anyone had good results from using NVIDIA and 
>>> their proprietary drivers?
>>
>>
>
> Been running them on Fedora Core 3, Suse 9.1 and CentOS without issue.
> Cards in question are 6600 GT on FC3 and 5200 on 9.1 and CentOS. Both
> fairly cheap no name cards with Nvidia chip sets. The CentOS install
> took 2 attempts for some reason.
>
> I had issues installing them Debian but that was many years ago now.
>
> Not had chance to try gaming under Linux with them but I had a friend
> who ran Counter Strike very nicely under Transgaming`s WINE, not with
> Nvidia though...
>
> Chris H
>
>
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>
> Subject:
> [sclug] 2 x Free PCI network cards
> From:
> "Hamlesh Motah" <admin at hamlesh.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 12 May 2005 11:36:36 +0100
> To:
> <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
>
> To:
> <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
>
>
>There may be a few of these emails from me, but just clearing out my
>"cupboard of bits";
>
>2 x 3Com Etherlink XL PCI network cards (RJ45 and BNC connections), free
>to whomever wants to come collect them.  I believe they are only 10Mb,
>if no one wants them they'll go in the bin :)
>
>Hamlesh Motah.
>
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