Problem with nvidia installer

[John Myshrall]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:42:27 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:41:48PM -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> > Thanks Lennart,
> > I got rid of a lot of errors by putting
> >  Load "fb"
> > in my XF86Config file . Now I'm left with the following errors. Is it
> > possible to see your XF86Config file?

<snip>

> > 
> > 
> #   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
> #   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
> #   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
> 	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
> Section "Module"


My latest info states that Load "Glcore" should be removed as well as Load "dri". Check the readme file that is generated during the install.  This was running 1.0.4363 driver though. 

It may be under /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz

> 	Load	"GLcore"
> 	Load	"bitmap"
> 	Load	"dbe"
> 	Load	"ddc"
> 	Load	"dri"
> 	Load	"extmod"
> 	Load	"freetype"
> 	Load	"glx"
> 	Load	"int10"
> 	Load	"record"
> 	Load	"speedo"
> 	Load	"type1"
> 	Load	"vbe"
> EndSection


HTH

John 





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