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netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 41

[SOLVED] Nvidia 9800 drivers????

OK I know this may have been ask before but I'll will again for the sake of my time.... sorry
I got the Nvidia Geforce 9800GT and need to know which Nvidia driver I need to download from community for it to work.
Also any thing special I need to do for this particular card, and is it better to download the run file from Nvidia web site?
TIA.

Last edited by netmanny (2012-09-29 15:09:36)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 9800 drivers????

Try 177.80.

It's better to use a pkgbuild, then files don't get overridden.

netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 41

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 9800 drivers????

Thanks but that did not work... I must be missing a setting.

(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  177.80  Wed Oct  1 14:45:01 PDT 2008
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 02:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:2:0:0.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please see the COMMON PROBLEMS section in the README for
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
   
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and freetype fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
    #   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "auto"
    Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
        Option "DPMS" "true"
#    HorizSync    28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
    HorizSync    28.0 - 60.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.

EndSection

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "All"
    BoardName   "All"
    Option        "PixmapCacheSize"  "1000000"
    Option        "AllowSHMPixmaps"  "0"
    Option        "UseEdidDpi"       "false"
    Option        "DPI"              "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     32
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 41

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 9800 drivers????

Well after endless trying It finally worked. kernel 2.6.27 and X.Org 7.4 did the trick.
well the actual problem is that the TV card won't play nice with the video card, They only work well under a 64 bit version.
maybe some resource or interrupt problem conflict that 32 bit can't handle.

Thanks .

Last edited by netmanny (2009-03-02 08:42:14)