Graphics accelerator.

[plarocque]

Hello everyone,
I'm new to Linux, completely new. I just installed Centos 4.3 on my IBM Netvista box. It's a bit old but I though it would do the job. It has 630 megs of memeory, Pentium 4 w 1.8 Mgz CPu. Video card is a nvidia vanta LT.

When I tried to run any ScreenSaver (as an exemple), it is very, very slow. I just took a course for Linux a few weeks ago, and I think the teacher mention something about having to update some files in order to have a good graphics resolution for some video card. But I just can't find anything about this nowhere. Does anyone have a clue of what I'm talking about, or do you have any suggestion I could try to accelerate my graphics resolution?

Thanks in advance.

 

[pansophic]

Historically you have needed to download an nVidia driver to get any nVidia card to work properly. I thought that they had finally resolved that issue, but possibly not.

Go to the nVidia website and search for a Linux video driver. In years past they had finally provided an RPM so that you could install the kernel module without needing kernel sources and rolling your own kernel.


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[plarocque]

I already downloaded the only driver available for Linux from Nvidia, but when I tried to install it, it give me a bunch of errors, mostly about a precompiled kernel interface no being found and the need to compile one for me ???? I can cut/paste the log file if you think it could be of any interest. Back to the kernel, is there something I can do about this? Or should I look for another video card instead? Thanks for your help. very appreciated.

 

[pansophic]

The log is probably helpful, but you may want to check and see if they have an RPM. That way you can insmod the kernel driver without having to roll your own kernel.

Try this link:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_1.0-3123.html

Just don't forget that you need both the kernel rpm and the display driver rpm. The RedHat RPMs should work for CentOS.


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[plarocque]

Thanks again. I tried avery single file for Redhat, but none of them seems to work. I always fail dewpendencies on the kernek version. I guest it looks for redHat vesion of kernel and because it only find the CenTos one, it show me the sky with its middle finger.... Any easy work around or should I just keep trying everything until I find one that works, if ever?

 

[stefanwagner]

I guess you need the kernel-headers for your kernel installed.
I'm not familiar with cent-os, perhaps they have a faq and a forum too.

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[pansophic]

If you know what the dependency is, lots of times you can fool the system by symlinking the desired files to the real ones. Or you can install the RPM with the --nodeps option, which turns off dependency checking.

If you choose to turn off dependency checking, be aware that you may need to boot single user mode or at least runlevel 3 in order to uninstall the RPMs, as they could install and not operate correctly.


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