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Butt Sniffer Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1026 Location: USA

Hi. Can someone tell me how to get into graphics mode with Mandrake 8.0. I've installed it on a Win95 box (Gateway with [quoting from the receipt] "STB Mpact 2 4MB 3-D AGP Graphics". (System is 3 yrs. old)

For some reason, off to the side, I wrote in pencil "Invidia board".

Anyhow, installed Mandrake alongside Win95 with just a few missteps, but cannot get the X Graphical Server to work.

I've tried a lot of combos in the "pick a board/pick a monitor" utility, but that game is getting old.

Thanks for any help.

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

If you choose FBDev it will "always" work with any hardware, but it is dogslow.

I think you need STB as driver but i haven't that hardware so it doesn't occupy any scule space with me. iIwould just do a google to make i work good

Butt Sniffer Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1026 Location: USA

Oh boy, now I get to show just how new to this I am. :-D

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If you choose FBDev it will "always" work with any hardware, but it is dogslow.

I don't seem to have FBDev as any of my choices. (I'm running DrakConf).

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I think you need STB as driver.

I don't understand which STB you mean. There are Velocity's, Riva's, etc?

Thanks for your help...

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

choose SVGA. That will do (and suck) for the moment.

What is the output for lspci.

ps i think it is a nvidia. tnt but more likely pre-tnt.

Butt Sniffer Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1026 Location: USA

You know, maybe I'm working on the wrong problem...for all I know, the error message is telling me that my zipper is down.

Here's the error message I'm getting after trying to test the configuration of my display from within DrakConf:

An error has occurred:
/etc/X11/F86Config.text:144

This was with the following selections:
Monitor - Generic|Generic Standard VGA 640x480 @ 60Hz

Graphics card - Nvidia|Riva TNT (Generic)

I must confess that I have no idea on how to find/look at this file. I can find the etc and the X11 directories, but everytime I "vi" the F86Config.test file, I get a 'new empty' file.

Thanks for the help.

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

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You know, maybe I'm working on the wrong problem...for all I know, the error message is telling me that my zipper is down.

Here's the error message I'm getting after trying to test the configuration of my display from within DrakConf:

An error has occurred:
/etc/X11/F86Config.text:144

This was with the following selections:
Monitor - Generic|Generic Standard VGA 640x480 @ 60Hz

Graphics card - Nvidia|Riva TNT (Generic)

I must confess that I have no idea on how to find/look at this file. I can find the etc and the X11 directories, but everytime I "vi" the F86Config.test file, I get a 'new empty' file.

Thanks for the help.

I don't think it writes the file if it fails.

What to do:
Download the NVidia GLX from NVidia
Download the NVidia-kernel-src.rpm from NVidia

as root:

Do rpm -ivh with the NVidia-GLX
do rpm --rebuild NVidia-kernel-1..src.rpm
do rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPM/i586/NVidia-kernel....i586.rpm

Xfdrake --skiptest --expert
choose XF4
This should make the /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file.

After which you have to make some changes to it.
In Module you have to change the loads to this

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe"
Load "glx"

and in Device

Driver "nvidia"

Butt Sniffer Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1026 Location: USA

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as root:

Do rpm -ivh with the NVidia-GLX
do rpm --rebuild NVidia-kernel-1..src.rpm
do rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPM/i586/NVidia-kernel....i586.rpm

Ok, I give. I've tried this every which way but sideways...

I downloaded the driver info.

When I do the "Do rpm -ivh with the NVidia-GLX", I get a message that it failed since it's dependent on the kernel.

When I try the "do rpm --rebuild NVidia-kernel-1..src.rpm", rpm acts like it is getting "rpm help". AND, --rebuild is not in the shown options.

However, when I go into the man pages, I see the --rebuild option.

Any and all help will be appreciated.

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

You need to have installed rpm-build (and a slew of dependancies) to do rpm --rebuild. If you didn't install it it won't work

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urpmi rpm-build

That it will install all what you need to build the src.rpm

than do a

rpm -ivh NVidia-GLX /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVidia..rpm

Edited by - csign on 09/06/2001 18:50:53

Stray Dog Joined: 05 Sep 2001 Posts: 15 Location: USA

And that, my friends, is why I dont use linux.

--I can drink my own weight in beer--

Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

You are right.

Long Life Palm

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