[lug] NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Driver & KRUD (Was Dell Utility Partition)

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, j davis wrote:

> Did you edit out the dri entries there is one at top and one at the very
> bottom....also dont forget to change nv to nivida. those 3 edits and
> adding the nvidia kernel and glx gets my card kickin ass!

The problem I seem to be having is getting the nvidia kernel module to
load.  It looks to me like I need to grab a copy of the kernel source and
then try compiling the nvidia kernel module again.  Otherwise I keep
getting version mismatch errors.

Some of this could be my unfamiliarity with the Red Hat package manager.  
I'm primarily a Debian user.  Is there anything somewhat akin to Debian's
dselect utility on the Red Hat system?  Debian's dselect gives me a way to
see what I have available from my source archives, as well as what I have
installed, what version, and a nice text description of each package and
its dependencies.  Using the rpm command seems fairly equivalent to using
the lower level Debian dpkg or apt-get commands.  I think that some of
what Sean's work with krudfind and krud2date probably deals with some of
these issues.

> The nv driver totally craps out if you try any 3d stuff...for me
> anyway.  I think it would be a shame for anyone with a nvidia chipset
> not to use the nvidia driver.

I'm not finished tinkering quite yet ...

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)