issues with 3d games

[LinuxNewb]

i made the changes to xorg.conf

added # infront of Load "dri"

and changed driver to "nvidia" from "nv"

also performed the cp and chown commands i followed the other posts about this exactly

sumone mentioned to make sure i had nvidia-glx, where do i get this?

i also updated my udev

[sarumont]

i made the changes to xorg.conf

added # infront of Load "dri"

and changed driver to "nvidia" from "nv"

also performed the cp and chown commands i followed the other posts about this exactly

sumone mentioned to make sure i had nvidia-glx, where do i get this?

i also updated my udev

nvidia-glx should be available from nvidia's website.

[LinuxNewb]

k thanx i searched their website but came up empty ill give it another look over

[xt2k]

just go nvidia's website and choose "download driver" then choose "OS: Linux IA32" and you'll get the nvidia latest driver (ver66 i think) then do the following:

Logon as root (su -)
init 3 (shuts down the X server)
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-XXXX-pkg2.run (this will start the install process)
init 5 (gets you back to the GUI)
Then edit file /etc/X11/XF86Config , change value of šnvš to šnvidiaš

everything should work from there, coz this is what i do always and it works eveytime i do it.

XT

[LinuxNewb]

that is what ive done tho.

[xt2k]

hmmm, that's interesting coz you said earlier tht you've edited the file: /etc/rc.sysinit

XT

[LinuxNewb]

yah i came across a post sumwhere that mentioned to edit that file to have the drivers load with udev, figured it couldnt hurt, but i also undid what i had edited and tried again .

Im going to uninstall the drivers and start all over again... this is starting to drive me nuts :P

[sheds]

I am using mandrake i've done exactly what our friend here said, and it has worked everytime. No other file has to be edited rather than your X config file specified in /var/log/XFree86.0.log file, the line that goes like this:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"

Check that you are using the correct X config file, the first time, i was editing the wrong one. Until i found that the actual file was that one written in that log file.

[Stormblazer]

First, the nvidia-glx comes with the nvidia driver, they haven't been separate packages for a LONG time.
The easy way to get nvidia installed on linux.
0- if your using a really recent kernel or a custom built kernel, you'll probably need the kernel sources installed

1. switch to run-level 3 by entering "init 3" in a terminal
2. goto the folder with the driver and run it, just enter "sh" and the filename of the driver, you may want to add the "-opengl-headers" option too
3. after it's installed, edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as explained in the README for the driver on nVidia's website.
4. go back to X by entering "init 5"
5. follow the intructions here to fix the nvidia - udev issues in Fedora Core 3

On fedora core 3, you can get the kernel sources by dowloading the kernel SRPM and following the instructions in the Fedora Core 3 release notes.

[LinuxNewb]

all that has been done. im going to do a fresh install again and see if that helps