[TriLUG] advice on installing nVidia card

[Matt Matthews]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:37:33PM -0500, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 1> recompile the kernel with the nvidia stuff  (or can I just compile
> this as a module? do  I need to recompile the kernel)?

It must be modular, IIRC. At least that's the standard way of doing things.

> 2> install the card

This can come first. Boot into initlevel 3. Configure 2D first.

> 4> run Xconfigurator and change my modes accordingly.

Or run XFree86 -configure and go from there. This is what I have done for a
while now.

> Is that about the crux of it?  Am I missing something?  

That's most of it. NVIDIA's documentation should be *very* good and I
recommend reading it *first*.

Generally speaking:
- configure 2D using the nv driver
- compile the module, install the GLX libs
- edit XF86Config-4 to switch from nv driver to nvidia, and add the line to
make sure XF86Config-4's Modules section includes the glx module.
- start X with xinit and then run gears or glxinfo to test

I probably forgot something, but there you go.

Regards,
matt

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