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bassvandijk
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 8:00 pm Post subject: Help! my "GeForce 4 488 Go" is not supported. |
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I just bought a notebook with a "GeForce 4 488 Go" graphics card.
I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and updated my XF86Config file,
but when I:
modprobe NVdriver
I get an error message saying that my device is not recognized!
It seems that the nvidia driver doesn't support my graphics card
I tought that the nvidia drivers had support for all the nvidia chips...
but the weird thing is that the "GeForce 4 488 Go" isn't mensioned on the nvidia site.
When I do a google search on "GeForce 4 488 Go" I get only one result. Unfortunally the link is to a german linux site. (And my german is not that good)
When i searched the nvidia site a little bit further I found the following thread on the their forum. (It looks like these guys are having the exact same problem as I have)
Can anybody help?
(I fear the worst!  ) |
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rojaro
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:45 am Post subject: |
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well, i've read that german thread at linux-community.de but there is also nothing that can help you with this. i've read there that one guy made it work with the precompiled rpm packages and mandrake linux but he didnt mention any details.
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Malakin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:48 am Post subject: |
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Did you try nvidia-kernel 4191?
What notebook did you buy? Nvidia's site doesn't mention the existance of a 488 go, only up to a 460 go. |
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bassvandijk
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Malakin wrote: | | Did you try nvidia-kernel 4191? |
The 4191 README sais that my card isn't supported...
| rojaro wrote: | | i've read there that one guy made it work with the precompiled rpm packages and mandrake linux but he didnt mention any details. |
That's interesting! To bad my german isn't that good (I'm dutch) |
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pbuytels
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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I did some research on the Geforce4 488 Go and according to several sources it is an NV18 GPU and it's id is 0x187.
In the readme you are referring to i can see it in the supported list as an NV18 Pro.
So i guess it is supported in that driver release, but that's not the driver that is in the stable portage tree.
To install the 1.4 driver package type this in a shell:
#export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
After that you can download the updated packages with:
#emerge -u nvidia-glx
It will update a lot of packages so you'd better check first with:
#emerge -up nvidia-glx
I'm going to try this tonight because i also have the same problem with the current (1.3) NVdriver.
By the way Bas, did you buy an "Aldi Laptop" ? |
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bassvandijk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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BASSBOX / # export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
BASSBOX / # emerge -up nvidia-glx
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/perl-5.8.0-r10 [5.8.0-r9]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.5 [4.3-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4-r1 [1.1.4]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.2-r1 [3.2.2]
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2 [2.3.1-r2]
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.5-r1 [1.95.4]
[ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.3-r2 [2.1.2-r2]
[ebuild U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1 [2.1]
[ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 [4.2.1-r2]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4p-r1 [1.4p]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.57 [2.54]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r1 [2.0.1]
[ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2
[ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4191-r1
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It's emerging right now...
pbuytels, if this works you'll have my ethernal gratitude!!!
And yes, I bought an Aldi Laptop  ...
which I think was a really good deal, I mean:
Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR
40 GB IBM
GeForce 4 488 Go 64 MB
CD/CDRW/DVD
FireWire
Infrared
3x USB
15'' TFT
3 year warranty
...
for 1579,- Euro
pbuytels, did you also bought this laptop? |
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bassvandijk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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I T W O R K S ! ! ! ! !
pbuytels, you totally made my day! thnx.
emerging quake3 right now  |
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Malakin
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Did you try nvidia-kernel 4191? |
| Quote: | | The 4191 README sais that my card isn't supported... |
Looks like it worked after all :-) |
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rbonthond
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| bassvandijk wrote: | And yes, I bought an Aldi Laptop ...
which I think was a really good deal, I mean:
Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR
40 GB IBM
GeForce 4 488 Go 64 MB
CD/CDRW/DVD
FireWire
Infrared
3x USB
15'' TFT
3 year warranty
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for 1579,- Euro
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oke... is the aldi also open on koopzondag ? 
btw, bas, be carefull with
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export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
emerge -up nvidia-glx
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since this would upgrade all to unstable.
it is safer to do:
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p nvidia-glx
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since this would only upgrade what is needed for nvidia-glx unstable.
alles oke ? |
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