[TriLUG] nvidia geforce4 mx 3d acceleration puking hard

[Jim Ray]

thank you very much for your response.  yes, i'm running rh-9.  ia32 ok.
got caught by the amd gotcha :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: crimsun at fungus.sh.nu [mailto:crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:55 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] nvidia geforce4 mx 3d acceleration puking hard
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:46:32PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> > nv.c:1282:warning:passing arg1 of 'remap-page-range-R492427ce' makes
> > pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> rmap vs. vanilla vm, more than likely. Are you using RH9? My 
> gut feeling
> tells me you may need a patch (against the Nvidia kernel 
> driver), but I
> defer to those on the list who run RH9 and have the Nvidia 
> kernel driver
> working...
> 
> > a.log on as root
> > b.change runlevel to 3 by editing /etc/inittab -> id:3:initdefault
> > c.reboot
> > d.download tar balls for AMD processor and rh-9
> > e.unpack (x-extract, v-verbose, z-ungzip, f-file?)
> > 	i.tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180.tar.gz
> > 	ii.tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180.tar.gz
> 
> This is the gotcha. You want the Linux IA32 driver, not the AMD64 --
>