Nvidia and B04

that you have an Nvidia card with 3D and you want the 3D to work?
If so you have to edit the XF86Config file. Someone has written the instructions somewhere on this forum, perhaps a search will find them?
Liz

Thanks for the answers but i manage to find it ...
After you install your fresh system , you start
Synaptic from a root console, you update then install
the nvidia-glx package. Then you click on MEPIS System
Center icon on your desktop and under mouse and display
click on the nvidia tab and select the nvidia button.
Then what is left is to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
file with any text editor so you comment with a # the
lines containing load dri and load glcore.Save it then
logout, refresh X and thats it !!!

After doing glxgears in a console im getting about 3555
frames w/in 5 sec in MEPIS compare to 2200 in redhat 9 ?
Impressive !!!!! (Gforce3 ti-200 128 megs)

Mepis rocks !!!!

I have tried this numerous times and with no luck. The drivers seam to install corectly but when I restart the graphical interface I get no display. The screen will go black and give me nothing. I know the computer is working fine because I can hear the music play as KDE gets started up.

I was able to do the?? NVidia install just as you said using Suse 9.0 and the 3d works wonderfully. However, I like how Mepis is faster and there's just something I like better about the apt-get utility. However, this graphics thing is really bothering me and I can't make the full switch until I get it figured out.

If anybody has any more suggestions on what is needed to make the Nvidia 3d support function correctly please post it up.

the driver from 'nv ' to 'nvidia' as well.
but if you have tried this numerous times, I'm sure already know that.
Do you have a recent Nvidia card or an older model like TNT2?
The older ones probably need the older drivers.
LIz

It's a Quadro4 980xgl (workstation open gl card) that I use for 3d design. Some of the programs I use in windows have Linux versions but I need the 3d so I can use them. I've tried the nv to nvidia and NvAGP 1/2. The weirdest thing is when I think it's just about right I can get KDE to start and you hear the music and the screen flickers but goes black immediately.??When I ctrl-alt-backspace and quit the xserver I can read the error log on the screen and it mentions something about a font error. I am going to investigate that problem a little more to see if that has something to do with it (I'm not at that machine right now so I can't exacly say what the error was).

I reinstalled Suse 9.0 two nights ago and was able to get the 3d working (using their online update and enabling 3d). Though, that doesn't help me much since it's RH based and not Deb based.??The thing is that in the XF86Config-4 file there isn't anything that I haven't done before. I feel like I am so close to getting it working and I can't give up now :mrgreen:

that working config file over to Mepis, see if that helps
Liz

Just a question IK632, do you have an onboard
card on your system ?
Because it happend to me once, i forgot to
disable the onboard card.

Bye.

My setup is here: http://www.mepis.org/node/view/1590

Maybe it's just the beta that doesn't work with my setup. Though, I can't get 2003.10.02 to load because I'm using sata for boot so I can't confirm if my setup works with a non-beta release.

Boot from the Mepis CD and copy the XF86Config-4 file to /etc/X11/ , it worked for a friend of mine but for a different video card. If Mepis can boot up from the CD and glxgears runs above 1000 fps, then gl is most likely working. This was with the 2003 2.4 Kernel by the way, not sure about the new version.

I thought I heard the electro-shock tehnician say as he pulled the lever, "May the force be with you".