One last thing

zalibidas · 01-24-2009, 10:35 AM

OK. Using slackware 12.2, and fluxbox. How do I install the drivers, step by step, if its not to much of a pain.

I'm a new user to linux. Don't know much at all, so I'm having trouble as to where I should start with this. And, to give you an idea of just how new I am, I had trouble figuring out I needed to type startx to get here. :P

tramni1980 · 01-24-2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by zalibidas

OK. Using slackware 12.2, and fluxbox. How do I install the drivers, step by step, if its not to much of a pain.

I'm a new user to linux. Don't know much at all, so I'm having trouble as to where I should start with this. And, to give you an idea of just how new I am, I had trouble figuring out I needed to type startx to get here. :P

Go to slackbuilds.org and download and install the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-driver packages. Make sure that you choose a driver that supports your video card. If your nvidia a bit old, the new driver might not work for it. Read carefully the READMEs of both packages at slackbuilds.org. In case of problems, post us here you /var/log/Xorg.log file

Remember to change the driver name in xorg.conf from "nv" to "nvidia".

Good luck

tux_dude · 01-24-2009, 10:49 AM

We all have to start somewhere...Welcome to Slack.

You can run the nvidia driver directly. You will need to stop X before installing the driver.

Code:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.22.pkg1.run

Once you have everything running, you can edit the file /etc/inittab to start X automatically.

Change

Quote:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

To

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# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

zalibidas · 01-24-2009, 12:12 PM

I can see the files needed to download at slackbuild.org, but theres so many. I don't know which ones I need, or how to install them, all that stuff. Could you explain in a bit more detail? I have like no knowledge of anything linux, so saying that, I could download the files, but then I would have no clue what to do with them.

And tux, from what I've read, doesn't 180.22 have some sorta issue with slackware?

digitelle · 01-24-2009, 12:19 PM

Go to the Nvidia website, they have the 180.22 drivers for linux out, most likely your card is supported. Either that or wait for the right ones to become available on slackbuild.

zalibidas · 01-24-2009, 12:43 PM

Got it working. Thanks for the help. I was just a bit worried that 180.22 wouldn't work, but gave what the third guy said a try and it worked like a charm.

tramni1980 · 01-25-2009, 03:57 AM

I should learn how to use the slackbuilds. They have documentation on their site (www.slackbuilds.org) on how to use the slackbuilds. The ultimate reason is that unless your programs are packaged, you have no way to remove or upgrade them, at least in most cases.

cwwilson721 · 01-25-2009, 02:19 PM

The Nvidia drivers work fine from the nvidia website. Just do as the poster above said, and they will work.

The issue with using the nvidia drivers from slackbuilds is that UNLESS YOU HAVE THE EXACT KERNEL THEY WERE BUILT FROM, THEY PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK! (And,since I always build a custom kernel from latest sources at kernel.org, they never work)

But if you run the nvidia run package yourself, and tell it NOT to get the drivers from the web, it will build the driver from whatever kernel you have installed.

ppr:kut · 01-26-2009, 02:39 AM

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The issue with using the nvidia drivers from slackbuilds is that UNLESS YOU HAVE THE EXACT KERNEL THEY WERE BUILT FROM, THEY PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK! (And,since I always build a custom kernel from latest sources at kernel.org, they never work)

This is just utter nonsense. The nvidia-kernel scripts will ALWAYS build a kernel module FROM SOURCE for the kernel specified, by default the currently running one.
The issue with the slackbuilds is that I'm currently a little bit behind on updates...