[Techtalk] X11 config-4

[Andrew]

Hi Beth,

	Do you mean to tell me you could hear the pannic? Yah I was waiting for
your answer. My previous kernel would have caused problems, Just days
ago,I upgraded using an 8.2 cd and did security updates download from
Mandrake, guess that was not enough change to cause problems. The GUI
update still gives package errors, so I went ahead and used CL with RPM.
So between the GUI upgrade tool not working for this (nvida.rpm) and your
warning I felt cause to worry. In 8.0 and now in 8.2 package errors are
common for me when attempting to upgrade with Mandrake GUI tools.

	Your config file has helped. I could use a few more if anyone wants to
send them. 

	Andrew 

On 04 Oct 2002 19:52:35 -0400
Beth Johnson <linux.chick at verizon.net> wrote:

> Earlier I wrote this:
> > > I don't know about the twin head stuff, but this above you can't
> > > do. The nVidia drivers are modules for a kernel and if you have
> > > updated your kernel the stock rpm won't work.
> 
> Which caused Andrew some distress.  What I meant was, if your kernel
> has been updated since nVidia built their rpms, then you'll need to
> compile or rebuild.  If not (and since you didn't get error messages,
> that seems to be the case) then you can just install them via rpm and
> not worry. I, on the other hand, had updated twice since the RH rpms
> were built and had to go the tarball route.
> 
> But you still have to edit your configuration file, as nVidia
> explains; there's more than one edit and I don't know if there would
> be some way to do that at the command line ("load glx"), which seemed
> to be what you were saying?
> 
> Anyway, here's the relevant parts of my config file:
> 
> Section "Module"
> 
> # This loads the DBE extension module.
> 
>     Load        "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension
> 
> # This is the GLcore module.  Comment out for nVidia drivers.
> 
> #    Load  "GLcore"
> 
>     Load  "dbe"
>     Load  "extmod"
>     Load  "fbdevhw"
> # This is the dri module.  Comment out for nVidia drivers.
> 
> #    Load  "dri"
> 
> # glx module.  Enable for nVidia drivers.
> 
>     Load  "glx"
>     Load  "record"
> 
> #EndSection
> 
> (Later on in the file:)
> 
> # Device configured by me:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         # Use Driver "nvidia" for nVidia drivers
>         # Use Driver "nv" for XFree drivers
> 	Identifier "nVidia Corporation|NV11 GeForce2 MX DDR"
> 	Driver "nvidia"
> #	Driver "nv"  # Commented out because I'm using the nVidia
>         VideoRam    65536
> 	BoardName "Unknown"
> EndSection
> 
> H(ope)T(his)H(elps)
> Beth
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