I'm definitely a linux newbie, but have fulled with PCs (Windoze/Dos) for more than 15 years. That said, I'm taking a shot at assembling a KnoppMyth box. My question pertains to the TNT2 M64 nVidia video card that resides in the Pentium 3 that I'm working on.

I gather that all or some (?) nVidia cards don't function properly with KnoppMyth and that updated drivers should be installed. My questions are as follows:

Is this true of all nVidia cards, and particularly the flavor residing in my box?

If my driver does need updating, at what point during the installation of KnoppMyth do I do this?

Lastly, nVidia recommends the driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7184-pkg1.run for this card. Should I assume that the information within the KnoppMythWiki (http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... diaDrivers) on updating nVidia drivers needs to be modified if I use this driver?

TIA for your patience and moving me along in this process.

Most nvidia cards work fine for most people. Remember the postings in any forum like this over represent problems, because it's where people come when they have a problem. After all, if you visit a hospital you're going to find that most of the patients are sick or injured. Statisticians call this "a skewed sample".

For older cards you need to use the older driver. It should auto-detect this and pick the correct driver. If it doesn't you can force it using:

After installing and rebooting, during the boot sequence KnoppMyth attempts to detect an nvidia card. If you card isn't accurately detected and the legacy driver isn't installed, tjc has provided the command for you to use.

I really appreciate the input. I'll definitely do as you suggest.

ive got the same card, and installing the nvidia drivers for me fell over, i might try installing an archived version of the driver from nvidia as the current legacy driver falls on its arse when i try to use it in X.

i want to use twinview andcant do that with the nv drivers.

The legacy drivers appeared not install using the command above. Or perhaps they did install but the card requires the driver on nVidia's site.

I downloaded the recommended linux driver on my Windows machine. If I put it on a disc, what would be command be to install it? Sorry to be so much trouble, but I really am swimming in unfamiliar waters.

PS: The driver's extension is .run.

As root:

I'll be out of pocket for a while, but I'll let you how things went.

Hello, again, to all my coaches... Here's where I am in my quest to install the proper drivers for my nVidia graphics card.

The nVidia drivers for Linux cannot be installed if I simply exit from X. I am given a message to go nVidia's website and read a readme.txt file. It tells me the following:

"Before beginning the driver installation, you should exit the X server.
In addition you should set your default run level so you will boot to a
vga console and not boot directly into X (please consult the documentation
that came with your Linux distribution if you are unsure how to do this;
this is normally done by modifying your /etc/inittab file). This will
make it easier to recover if there is a problem during the installation."

The documentation also says that "after installing the driver you must edit your X config file before the newly installed driver will be used." There are details about the recommended changes.

For now, how can I boot to "a vga console" rather than X? If the answer is to modify the /etc/inittab file, what command do I use and what changes should I make?

Finally can you tell me the command for editing the X config file in KnoppMyth?

TIA for your tireless efforts in getting me up and running.

Again, thanks for all your help.

I gave up on using a TNT2, bought a geforce 440mx and reinstalled the driver. bingo it worked first shot.