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    Nvidia splash screen, now what?

    I installed the Nvidia drivers and now get the splash screen when I boot up. However my GForce4 MX card is not detected. Under Display for a video card is selected ALL. I do not see the GForce4 MX under Nvidia. Nor am I able to run any GL type screensavers.

    I'm a noobe learning fast, but I must be missing something. Please help

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    Re: Nvidia splash screen, now what?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave52355
    I installed the Nvidia drivers and now get the splash screen when I boot up. However my GForce4 MX card is not detected. Under Display for a video card is selected ALL. I do not see the GForce4 MX under Nvidia. Nor am I able to run any GL type screensavers.

    I'm a noobe learning fast, but I must be missing something. Please help

    Thanks
    You should check the default depth of your display I believe if it is above 16 bit the screensavers will not work. To check if it is working open a console window and glxgears and you should see some spinning wheels (gears) this should work at higher resoulutions at least it does on my machine. A link to the Nvidia forum if you have not already found it.

    BTW if you want to get rid of the logo your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 should look like this:

    Code:
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "NoLogo" "on"

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    You should also install yanc:

    http://yanc.sourceforge.net/index-en.html

    It allows easy configuration of things and includes a button to turn on/off the nvidia logo. Yanc is also the easiest way I have found to configure TV-out.

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    OK, I get the spinning gears. But with the vid card detected as All/All I am not able to change my screen resolution from 640X480 color 8. Should I choose one of the cards listed in the Nvidia selection even though there is no GForce 4?

    Thanks

    Also dl yanc

    yanc say's the drivers to old!

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    Thx for the glxgears and yanc tips.

    --BTW, I replaced my ancient Riva TNT2 card with a Geforce4 MX440, and in both Linux + Win everything works perfectly. I did reinstall the Linux driver JIC, but not sure if it's absolutely necessary.

    @Dave - did you follow all of nvidia's directions when installing the drivers? You have to comment out stuff like this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:

    ## Load "GLcore" # xxx 2003.0528 Removed for nvidia
    ## Load "dri" # xxx Removed for nvidia
    .
    .
    .
    # Driver "nv" # xxx Removed for nvidia
    Driver "nvidia" # xxx 2003.0528

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    I used the old installer script to do the install. But I also checked the config files for the changes. I also tried most current drivers from nvidia but they would not install says I have a gcc error. I tried:

    IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH

    export EXPORT_CC_MISMATCH=1

    Nothing seemed to happen when I entered these in root still got the same errors. If it would help I can post the install log file.

    Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave52355
    I used the old installer script to do the install. But I also checked the config files for the changes. I also tried most current drivers from nvidia but they would not install says I have a gcc error. I tried:

    IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH

    export EXPORT_CC_MISMATCH=1

    Nothing seemed to happen when I entered these in root still got the same errors. If it would help I can post the install log file.

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    Try export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-2.95 before the compile.

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    Nope get the same error gcc-check error 1

    Something about failed cc sanity (They must know my history...)

    Anyways, open to other ideas

    Thanks

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