Problem with nvidia installer

[John Myshrall]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:11:44 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> 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

I just checked. It still says these should be removed. I'm running 1.0-5336

>From file:/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README

If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver), then all you need to do is find
the relevant Device section and replace the line:

        Driver "nv"
    (or Driver "vesa")

with 

        Driver "nvidia"  

In the Module section, make sure you have:

        Load   "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:
      
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "GLcore"

if they exist.  There are also numerous options that can be added to
the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver.  Please see
Appendix D for a complete list of these options.

John 
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