Ok, pretty much you're going to have to open up a text editor (take your pick, i'm into VIM b/c i'm a massochist), open up /etc/inittab and make the following change:
from this
to this
Ok, now reboot your computer, when it starts up, you should just go straight to a console login screen. Log in as root, and then pretty much just run the NVidia installer (
Code:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg1.run
), following the instructions on the screen. BTW, NVidia's got an
annoyingly long readme file on their driver download page which goes into the deep details of the install process, which i recommend you read before installing, especially taking note of the alterations you need to make to the XFree86Config file after the install
.
OKAY! now that's done, the XFree86Config file has been written, now what?
you'll need to go and use a console-based text editor to change the Config file to the specifications listed in section3 of the readme file.
when you're back at a bash type "startx" to hop back into X. Log in as root, open up a text editor, modify /etc/inittab back to its old form:
restart and you should be good.
You can test the gfx to see if it's working by going to a console and running the program "glxgears" or if you don't want the pretty spinny thingies, just type "glxinfo | less".
Hope this helps you, I've gotten UT2k3 working on my box with a PNY GeForceFX 5200Ultra, I just need to work on NOT overheating my processor (got it up to 79deg C in about 10 mins
).
Good Luck!
P.S.
BIG CAVEAT: What ever you do... don't change the inittab default to 6 or your computer will continually startup, shutdown, startup, etc... forever.....FOR-EVER......
Same applies to 0.