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  From: Robyn Manning <robynman@dove.net.au>
  To  : Tim Fairchild <amosf@mrbean.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:13:49 +1030

Re: about XFree 4.0...

Hi Tim,

Make sure you don't have any GL files from Mesa in the path, if you do find some
rename them so that they wont be used.

I don't know why but the files from Nvidia only work on a compiled kernel not
the installation one.

There is a good faq at Nvidia also.

You need to download 2 files from nvidia and install them.

Next you need to configure 'X'. Do you have 'Xconfigurator'? If not then edit
the attached file to suit your settings.

Robyn

Tim Fairchild wrote:
> 
> Talking about XFree86 4.0, what's the deal with Mandrake 7.2. I've just
> installed it, and I'll put all that in another post, and it's working fine
> on this box. Few little teething troubles, but not too much trouble with
> X. This box uses a SIS 6326 card, or something like that, and it's
> lovely. It even fixed the cursor problem I had with X 3.3.6 (with that
> version I had a glitch on the cursor, but if I use the sw_cursor option it
> would crash X randomly)
> 
> Anyway, works fine with this mandrake hybrid version of 4.01, whatever it
> is. But I had no luck installing on the other box with the TNT2m64. IT
> worked fine (normal non-3d use) on 3.3.6 with mandrake 7.0. With mandrake
> 7.2 and 4.01 it locks the screen and I can't seem to get out of it. The
> box is still running and I can telnet in okay, but shutting X down doesn't
> help and I can't seem to get any responce. In the end I just shutdown -r
> now...
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any option in the install to use 3.3.6, but the
> rpms seem to be included. I'm going to try and manually install 3.3.6,
> except the base package seems to be 4.01 (or some home made mandrake
> thing). Bit confusing for a dummy like me...
> 
> I don't normally dabble in the cutting edge like this on my production pc,
> but I didn't really think mandrake 7.2 was a cutting edge release like it
> seems to be. But I did want to have an easy way to look at KDE2 and
> upgrade to some more recent gnome/gtk libs and stuff. I can't d/l that
> much stuff..
> 
> Anyway, more on the ups and downs of the install later... :-)
> 
> tim
> 
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# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
	FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# This loads all the modules...

Section "Module"
#	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "pex5"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xie"
	Load  "v4l"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option      "XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Mouse0"
	# Modified by mouseconfig
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/mouse"
	Option		"Protocol"		"IMPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"no"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier "My Monitor"
	VendorName "Unknown"
	ModelName  "Unknown"
	HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
	VertRefresh 50-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "nVidia Corporation|Vanta [NV6]"
	Driver "nvidia"
	BoardName "Unknown"
	Option "Backingstore"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device "nVidia Corporation|Vanta [NV6]"
	Monitor "My Monitor"
	DefaultDepth 16
	Subsection "Display"
		Depth 32
		Modes "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	Subsection "Display"
		Depth 24
		Modes "800x600" 
	EndSubSection
	Subsection "Display"
		Depth 16
		Modes "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
EndSection

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