On 12-18-2003, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
Billy Watt <newsspam@cjwatt.plus.net> wrote:

>
> In news:slrnbu4mqa.g80.argos2112@nowhere.invalid,
> Max <argos2112@bellsouth.net> rambled:
>
>>
>>> Solution: most likely PEBKAC.
>>
>> What exactly does that mean?
>>
>
> http://www.dansdata.com/pebkac.htm

Thanks!. Snagged and saved it. It reminds me of a time when I bought
an Amiga in preference to a PC. The first real problem I had, I went
back to the vender and he told me the problem was just a short
between the keyboard and the chair. Joke of course, but so true.

> "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
> Well, I think so, Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in
> Yiddish.

That's got to be one of the coolest cartoons they ever made...

Max

--
For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:20:35 +0000, Maestro Muten wrote:

> Of course I want to run games. And if you don't install the driver from
> Nvidia, 3D games will run veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slow even on modern
> machines (O credevi che la scheda 3D mi servisse per scrivere una
> letterina con OpenOffice?)

Get it working with "nv", then once you've done that comment out dri and
(if it's there) GLcore which conflict with nvidia's substitute for them,
then install the nvidia driver that you downloaded from the net. Then use
"nvidia" as your driver. If you have further questions, read the manual in
the /usr/doc tree. BTW, I'm running a TNT2 M64 here.

Joshua Lee ha scritto:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:20:35 +0000, Maestro Muten wrote:
>
>
>>Of course I want to run games. And if you don't install the driver from
>>Nvidia, 3D games will run veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slow even on modern
>>machines (O credevi che la scheda 3D mi servisse per scrivere una
>>letterina con OpenOffice?)
>
>
> Get it working with "nv", then once you've done that comment out dri and
> (if it's there) GLcore which conflict with nvidia's substitute for them,

I did. with the nv driver it works OK. (but 3d is S L O W)

> then install the nvidia driver that you downloaded from the net.

I did. dri and glcore commented out too.
> Then use "nvidia" as your driver. If you have further questions, read the manual in
> the /usr/doc tree. BTW,

I did. did not work. Read the manual: tried everything, no help. Tried
the newest drivers, no improvement. Tried old ones, no better. Tried
removing all cards (network, sound), same outcome. Tried re-installing
MDK 9.1, tried with the old driver, with the newest, with or without
other cards but TNT2, no way. Tried with the America's Army boot CD (a
Gentoo with NVidia drivers): X does not start.

I'm running a TNT2 M64 here.

Me too. And now I wonder if the accelerator chip is gone (could the card
work even if the chip under the fan - the one with the Nvidia logo
printed on - is out of order? as a standard VGA I mean?)

Ah by the way: it might look a silly question but: When I installed
Slackware I decided to re-organize my hard drives: they were a 20-gigs
EXT3-formatted and a 6-Gigs FAT32-formatted. Now they are both reiserfs.
(I use the bigger one as / and the smaller for /home). May this have
something to do with my problem with the video card? (dunno, maybe there
are some read/write disk problems that tamper with the driver compiling
process... ok, it was silly. I just don't know what to guess more..)