X on nVidia

If you own a graphics card based on nVidia chipsets–Riva TNT, Riva TNT2, GeForce (see README.txt for exact supported chipsets)–then check out the graphics acceleration drivers on this month’s CD . We assume that you have a running X Window system.

To install them change to the directory cdrom/linux/nvidia and install the two RPMs as:

rpm —ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.rh71up.i386.rpm



rpm —ivh NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm

Now open the file XF86Config-4 in a Linux text editor and scroll down to the following Module section. This section starts with the line:

Section “Module”

Remove the following two lines found in this section:

Load “dri”



Load “GLcore”

Scroll down to the following line:

Driver “nv”

This line can be found in the “Device” section of the file. Change this line to:

Driver “nvidia”

Save the file and start X Window using ‘startx’ command. You should be able to see a glimpse of the nVidia logo. In case you face any problem, like distorted display, try rebooting.