Let me tell you my story:
I own an old PII with a Nvidia TNT2 card I used to run Mandrake 9.1 on.
Now I switched to Slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.22)
I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver from their site; I installed it; I
changed "vesa" driver with "nvidia" in XF86Config; I rebooted the machine.
With Mandrake, when X was about to start, the NVidia logo appeared on
the screen... but no logo appeared. only some blue flashing, then a blue
screen (whoa! Blue screens! about an year has passed since I dropped
Wi****s 98 and blue screens again!!!) informing me the Nvidia module did
not load and X won't run.

I am pretty sure the horizontal and vertical frequencies of the screen
are ok (btw I switched to TFT - does it matter?), and I even tried to
upgrade the kernel to 2.4.23 (uninstalled and reinstalled NVidia
drivers) but no success.

what went wrong? Please, tell me, I don't want to get back to Mandrake!!!

Maestro Muten wrote:
> Let me tell you my story:
> I own an old PII with a Nvidia TNT2 card I used to run Mandrake 9.1 on.
> Now I switched to Slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.22)
> I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver from their site; I installed it; I
> changed "vesa" driver with "nvidia"

Ciao Maestro:
This is what I got in my PII 266 Debian box:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Selected Driver"
Driver "nv"
#VideoRam 4096

I use an STB 128 nVidia card with 4 megs RAM.

Write the "nv" part and make sure you have the correct amount of kb.
According to what I'm reading about Slack, and IIRC, Slack comes with
the "nv" driver by default.
You got nothing to lose.

I'm installing Slack 9.1 this weekend, wish me luck.

forza!

mario

>
> I am pretty sure the horizontal and vertical frequencies of the screen
> are ok (btw I switched to TFT - does it matter?), and I even tried to
> upgrade the kernel to 2.4.23 (uninstalled and reinstalled NVidia
> drivers) but no success.
>

Next time your car gets a flat, try changing the oil

In <brqq4i$6j0b3$1@ID-130336.news.uni-berlin.de>, mario wrote:

> Maestro Muten wrote:
>> Let me tell you my story:
>> I own an old PII with a Nvidia TNT2 card I used to run Mandrake 9.1 on.
>> Now I switched to Slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.22) I downloaded the latest
>> Nvidia driver from their site; I installed it; I changed "vesa" driver
>> with "nvidia"
>
> Ciao Maestro:
> This is what I got in my PII 266 Debian box:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Selected Driver"
> Driver "nv"
> #VideoRam 4096
>
> I use an STB 128 nVidia card with 4 megs RAM.
>
>
nv is the std X driver for nvidia cards, and does not provide 3D GL
acceleration. The "nvidia" is the closed source original nvidia driver,
which allows to run all kinds of 3D games with excellent performance.

To the OP: I can't help :-(... I got 5 machines with the nvidia drivers
and slack running ok, after some probs (in one I had to upgrade the mobo
bios). Maybe a verbose log of the X startup process will give some hints.
Actually, slack does not provide a different linux compared to other
distros (maybe slightly more conservative and careful in the
configuration, with an absolute minimum of unnecessary patches, which
makes it stable). Therefore, if the thing runs under mandrake, it should
run nicely using slack.

Maybe more info would be useful...

Good luck
Franz

--
Franz M. Sauerzopf
Atominstitut, TU Wien

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Maestro Muten wrote:
| I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver from their site; I installed it; I
| changed "vesa" driver with "nvidia" in XF86Config; I rebooted the machine.

Why did you reboot? Some Windoze reminiscence?
Did you read the README that come with the nVidia drivers? I don't think
so. If you did you'd find out you need to set more options than "driver".

Solution: most likely PEBKAC.

Yeti
- --
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD4DBQE/4Vx3knQnYFXk9woRArq7AJ4qCos9P6k6HuZ9OYW8YOErkOrW4w CXauEx
63C09Zddjm6PD4pcyDm3jQ==
=O9Ll
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Yeti <yeti.ssm@atlas.cz> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1

pgp trash troll delete

> Maestro Muten wrote:
> | I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver from their site; I installed it; I
> | changed "vesa" driver with "nvidia" in XF86Config; I rebooted the machine.

> Why did you reboot? Some Windoze reminiscence?

What does it matter? What does matter, though, is your unwarranted
use of pgp in this posting. As you're probably aware, the
unwarranted use of pgp in postings to this group is forbidden by
group policy. Please refrain from using pgp in the future unless
it is absolutely necessary.

Have some consideration for other posters.

cordially, as always,

rm

Franz M. Sauerzopf wrote:

> nv is the std X driver for nvidia cards, and does not provide 3D GL
> acceleration. The "nvidia" is the closed source original nvidia driver,
> which allows to run all kinds of 3D games with excellent performance.

Hmm, you are absolutely right of course, the thing is, is he going to
run games??? or does he want to get a better picture than the one the
vesa driver offers? With an old PII, what kind of games is he gonna run?
Maybe i'm misunderstanding the whole thing.

regards,
mario

mario ha scritto:
> Franz M. Sauerzopf wrote:
>
>> nv is the std X driver for nvidia cards, and does not provide 3D GL
>> acceleration. The "nvidia" is the closed source original nvidia driver,
>> which allows to run all kinds of 3D games with excellent performance.
>
>
> Hmm, you are absolutely right of course, the thing is, is he going to
> run games??? or does he want to get a better picture than the one the
> vesa driver offers? With an old PII, what kind of games is he gonna run?
> Maybe i'm misunderstanding the whole thing.
>
> regards,
> mario
>

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?)

On 12-18-2003, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
Yeti <yeti.ssm@atlas.cz> wrote:

> Maestro Muten wrote:
>| I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver from their site; I
>| installed it; I changed "vesa" driver with "nvidia" in
>| XF86Config; I rebooted the machine.
>
> Why did you reboot? Some Windoze reminiscence?
> Did you read the README that come with the nVidia drivers? I don't
> think so. If you did you'd find out you need to set more options
> than "driver".

I agree. If he had actually read the manual, it's unlikely he would
have posted that question. Getting those kernel tainting modules in
place and editing XF86Config is about as simple as it gets since
it's all right there in the docs. It isn't rocket science.

> Solution: most likely PEBKAC.

What exactly does that mean?

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.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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

- --
Billy

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Well, I think so, Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96rc1

iD8DBQE/4lzYoOMCLVDeF1sRAq0/AJ4lsAZnje4JnmXWPccJsqtx9GSewQCffFKU
6TQYeH+Qf2CW//w2X7LXWGk=
=8yqx
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----