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athoria
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 Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:03 am Post subject: Direct rendering with GeForce 4 Ti4200? |
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...let me preface this by saying I do not know linux very well at all, so simple explanations or verbose but patient explanations would be much appreciated
I have a GeForce 4 Ti4200 (technically, it's a LeadTek Winfast A250) and I'm having trouble getting anything to run that uses opengl. I can use my media player (xine) but I can't use things such as stepmania, the only game I really want to run on my linux box. Can anyone help?
I've already uncommented
#Section "DRI"
#mode 0666
#Endsection
as recommended by someone on the DeviantArt forum, but that's about as far as I've gotten, and still nothing works. If I haven't posted enough information, let me know and I'll tell you what I can...
Help the noob? 
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athoria
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Gah. I poked around the gentoo site only a little bit, and never found anything regarding nvidia. My problem is, now that I have that, it's hard for me to make sense of what it says. But I'll start here, thanks 
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Okay I just read throught the nvidia installation and it all makes sense to me, The only thing I don't understand is how to edit the kernel.. I've been poking around the documentation, and I obviously don't know what I'm doing because I haven't found an answer.
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| athoria wrote: |
Okay I just read throught the nvidia installation and it all makes sense to me, The only thing I don't understand is how to edit the kernel.. I've been poking around the documentation, and I obviously don't know what I'm doing because I haven't found an answer. |
as root do:
| Code: | cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig |
then a text based interface starts. navigate thru the menu to find the appropriate entry and change it to your liking
then
*) a couple of times [ESC]
*) save settings
| Code: | | make && make modules_install |
......when the kernel has compiled,.....
| Code: | mount /boot
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/<your kernel name> |
and then reboot. |
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athoria
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you so much! I got it working thanks to you
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| athoria wrote: | | Thank you so much! I got it working thanks to you |
no problem! glad i could help!  |
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