RE_ [olug] Second Monitor (I'm writing a book ) :)

[Ken]

G.M. wrote:
> I'm trying to resolve my blank screen problem when I log out of X  to a 
> console.Thinking it might be a driver issue I went to the nvidia driver 
> archive to download an old driver 
> ....ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40...I downloaded 
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.i586.rpm and the GLX rpm 
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm but there's so many drivers listed I don't 
> know if I got the right one for my kernel which is 2.4.21-0.13mdk and 
> I'm running mandrake 9.1.When I first tried to install the NVIDIA_kernel 
> rpm it said it couldn't find module nvidia.o.A quick locate found it at 
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o but a check of 
> lsmod said it wasn't loaded so I did a modprobe nvidia.o and it said it 
> couldn't find the module.So I cd'ed into the dir that nvidia.o was in 
> and ran insmod ./nvidia.o and it installed it but I got this error > See 
> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modu
> les
> Module nvidia loaded, with warnings
> 
> So I installed the NVIDIA_kernel rpm anyway and got this error>
>  Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
>    1:NVIDIA_kernel          ########################################### 
> [100%]
> Warning: loading 
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will
> taint the
> kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
>   See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about 
> tainted modu
> les
> Module nvidia loaded, with warnings
> 
> nvidia.o installed successfully
> 

You can ignore this warning.  It's simply telling you that you've 
installed non-GPL software (nvidia proprietary drivers) and "tainted" 
the GPL'd kernel.  The taint is only in the perspective of licensing.


> Then I installed the GLX rpm and got this error>
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>   --- WARNING!!
>       libglx.a
>       libGLcore.a
>       libGL.so.1.2
>  --- The above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm,
>  --- or to a previous stale NVIDIA distribution.
>  --- They have been renamed to xxx.<originalFile>.RPMSAVE to
>  --- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this
> 

try "rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia" or "rpm -qa | grep -i glx" to see if you 
have any older driver rpms installed.
-Ken