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

[G.M.]

Ken wrote:
> 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
> 
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