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Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:27 am

Um sorta a dumb question but where do i get it from for my nvidia card?

machf · Post by **machf** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:20 am

Either from the NVidia site or from http://www.xfree.org

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:11 am

hmmm. it says i need to install binutils.

where do i get binutils ??

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:04 am

Lou, you already have Xfree if you have Morphix. Are you needing to install the Nvidia drivers?

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:07 am

Ya i need the nvidia drives..

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:18 am

First, download the Nvidia "drivers" from their site. Here's an excerpt from a post on linuxquestions.org on how to get it going for you.

You'll have to edit your /etc/inittab file. Become root and type "gedit", without the quoteations and press enter.

click "open", and in the left hand pane, double click the "../ " 2 times.

In the left hand pane, scroll down to /etc and double click it.

look for "inittab" in the right pane, and double click it. gedit will then open the inittab file.

look for the line..

id:5:initdefault:

edit this line and change the "5" to a "3"

save, exit and reboot the computer.

This time, your "user manager thingie" will not come up for you to enter your name and password because you will now not be in X windows. You will have to enter your username and password at the command line to become root. Then go:

chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run [enter]

Then:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run [enter]

..and follow the instructions.

After completion, and at the command prompt, type "startx" and press enter. This will start X and will put you back in runlevel 5.

log in as usual, and return to gedit as above. Go back to /etc/inittab and change the "3" back to a "5". Also while in gedit, find and open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and look for a line under...

Section "Device"

and where you see "nv", change it to "nvidia" (this time only, with the quotes just as you see them)

save this file, exit out of gedit, reboot, and everything should work as before except your new updated Nvidia module willl be installed. If it is installed properly, from here on out all you will have to do is update your drivers which is very easy. Just become root (and if you're online) type:

nvidia-installer --update

That's it!

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:54 am

errrtt!!! wait a sec when i start the install is says that i need binutils to be installed.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:18 pm

Never run into that, I guess it's a Debian thing. Can you install it with apt-get?

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:51 pm

umm ok well not shure on how exaclty to use apt-get but i downloaded it.
I have unpacked it and now im not shure what to do. im gunna test some stuff and hopfully i get luckey lol.

[EDIT]: i think i downloaded somthing for windows gunna try again.[EDIT]

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:01 pm

LOL i found the right binutls, guess where.

lol debian.org and its a debian package.

but um how do i open it....

already tryed ./ and sh

do i use dpkg or is that for making debian packages?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:45 am

Lou, you're such a wiz kid at Linux I can't believe you haven't figure out apt-get with Synaptic yet!

Look in your menu for "Synaptic"

Open it, update it, and then type:

binutls

in the search window in the upper right hand corner. You should be able to figure out how to install it after that. Let me know if you can't get it installed.

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:09 pm

oi its that easy... man i feel like such a dummy.

ok im just about to run it. wish me luck.

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:42 pm

Is this a good Linux newbie site? Here

Oh ya and when i go through the install for my video card drivers is says that i have xserver started and that i need to shut it off. Im not quit shure what that is.. is it sorta like xwindows?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:48 pm

That site looks ok.

Lou, you did you edit your /etc/inittab to tell it to remain in run level 3 after rebooting like what's above? In runlevel 3 you are not in x windows which is how you need to be when trying to install the nvidia drivers. Follow the directions above, and you will be able to install them..

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:40 pm

in "inittab" i changed

id:2:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

is that right?

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
#Option "sw_cursor"
#Option "hw_cursor"
#Option "NoAccel"
#Option "ShowCache"
#Option "ShadowFB"
#Option "UseFBDev"
#Option "Rotate"
Identifier "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

uh i dont see"nv" anywhere in there...