ATTENTION ALL LINUX NEWBIES W/ NVIDIA CARDS

Support Basics & Interface
1

Hello… I have a tutorial to get your NVidia cards working… since there’s such a rush of q’s about this:

first we need to get out of our X server:

alt+f2

type:
rxvt, xterm, konsole, or gnome-terminal (whatever works).

WRITE THESE DOWN AS ONCE YOU TYPE /sbin/init 3 YOUR X SERVER WILL SHUT DOWN AND CHANCES ARE YOU WONT BE ABLE TO GET I T BACK UP W/O REBOOTING BECAUSE U WONT KNOW HOW.

http://nvidia.com
download this: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5328/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run
log out
log in as root
copy it to /root/nvidia.run
in the terminal program:


root@localhost#/sbin/init 3
Now your X server will shutdown

Ok

Login: root
Password: your-root-password

root@localhost#cd ~
root@localhost#chmod 
root@localhost#./nvidia.sh

We’re not done yet… now we edit our XF86Config


root@localhost#cd /etc/X11/
root@localhost#nano XF86Config;emacs XF86Config
if one dosent work the other will :)


Ok.. now we're here

allright
in Section "Module"

remove:
Load "DRI"


in Section "Device"
change the line containing Driver to:
Driver "nvidia"

save the file
exit the text editor.


root@localhost#startx
 
HAVE FUN!!! with the most awesome cards to grace this earth.
and just think.. no more winbl0ze
2

It’s very nice of you to try, but that must be the worst tutorial in years, I can’t recommend anybody to follow it.

  1. ALT-F2 is bound to a million different things in different environments.

  2. what is “chmod” going to accomplish, apart from
    chmod: too few arguments
    Try `chmod --help’ for more information.

  3. ./nvidia.sh won’t work because it won’t have the x bit set. Maybe you
    meant chmod +x ./nvidia.sh

  4. Where does nvidia.sh come from? Wasn’t it nvidia.run before?

Before you write “and just think… no more winbl0ze” next time, you should maybe write better tutorials :slight_smile: