Problem with nvidia installer

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 3 13:11:44 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:48:38AM -0400, John Myshrall wrote:
> 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

I am pretty sure the 5xxx and 6xxx drivers have not required that.  At
least it works very well for me as is, and I think removing them may
even break it now.  At least it does no harm.

Lennart Sorensen
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