installing drivers for new vid card via RPM - GLcore is missing

[carpeliam]

I have a LeadTek GeForce3. I emailed LeadTek asking what their Redhat driver support would be, they said that NVIDIA's drivers would work just fine. When setting up Redhat, I specified "GeForce2 Generic" until I could install the new drivers, and this worked just fine. However, after installing the new drivers, things didn't work so well. The screen would blink on and off for about 3 or 4 seconds at a time, and then I'd be able to use the computer -- for another 5 or 6 seconds, when the screen would blink on and off again for 3 or 4 seconds. Whatever I want to do, I have to fit into those 5/6-second intervals. After looking at the log, I noticed that it could not find the "GLcore" library; I assume that's core OpenGL support.

So my question is 2-fold.
#1, I assume I installed the drivers incorrectly. What's the correct way to install the drivers? I did the following:
<CODE>$ rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1512.rh71up.i386.rpm<BR>
$ rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1512.i386.rpm</CODE>
Perhaps I should have updated the drivers rather than installing the fresh new ones?

#2, How do I revert to the old drivers so that, while I'm fixing things, I don't have to fix things in that 5/6-second interval?

Also... can somebody confirm that these are the right drivers ) I'm pretty sure they are. Thanks all.. Liam Morley
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[ifincham]

Hi,





For a rpm, the syntax 'rpm -ivh rpmfilename' will only install if the package does not already exist. The commonly used alternative of 'rpm -Uvh rpmfilename' does an upgrade if the package exists already and is a lower version or, if not, does an install. So, your rpm commands were fine. It seems rather odd because one of the key features with rpm (unless you use 'force' options) is that it won't install anything if dependencies are not satisfied - e.g. it needs some other library to be able to run.





Did you get those rpms from -->

http://www.nvidia.com/nn/cp-linux.htm

? It could be that other packagers do things differently and cause problems.



Also did you read this --> ftp://209.249.170.24/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/README
It tells you how to edit your XF86Config file after installing the packages. Maybe its simpler to run 'Xconfigurator' or 'xf86cfg' as root (having first saved a copy of your config files /etc/X11/XF86Config & /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in case of error)



If you want to uninstall the rpms its just 'rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel' and 'rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX' .





Rgds