GeForce 4

[w00t]

I picked up a GeForce 4 MX420 today . Nice card for under $100. Tomorrow comes the setup of the Nvida linux drivers...hopefully I don't destroy anything. Is there a massive amount of work to get these working under linux?

[sde]

redhat has always recognized mine. ( 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 ) , but haven't had much luck with other distros. i'm no good a xfree86 configurating, .. but all i need is a prompt

[w00t]

Sweet... It took 1.5 hours of XFree86 configuring (using pico) but I finally got the thing to work. I thought I had wrecked it beyond repair, but i changed one little option and now it works :rock:

[sde]

what distro? and can you attach the file here?

[w00t]

Here it is, in all it's arcane glory, just for you sde .
This computer is running Redhat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.10

# File generated by anaconda.

Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Anaconda Configured"

Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts.


FontPath "unix/:7100"

EndSection



Section "Module"

Load "dbe"

Load "extmod"

Load "fbdevhw"

Load "pex5"

Load "glx"

Load "pex5"

Load "record"

Load "xie"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "keyboard"



# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"



# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the

# following line

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"



# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"



# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable"



# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use:

# Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:

# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"

# # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:

# Option "XkbLayout" "de"

# or:

# Option "XkbLayout" "de"

# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

# # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and

# control keys, use:

# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

#Option "XkbVariant" ""

#Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection



Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"

VendorName "Monitor Vendor"

ModelName "Monitor Model"

HorizSync 31.468-71.0

VertRefresh 56.0-85.0

Option "dpms"



# -- 1400x1050 - # 1400x1050 @ 60Hz, 65.8 kHz hsync Modeline "1400x1050" 129 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync



# 1400x1050 @ 70Hz, 76.8 kHz hsync Modeline "1400x1050" 151 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync



# 1400x1050 @ 75Hz, 82.3 kHz hsync Modeline "1400x1050" 162 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync



# 1400x1050 @ 85Hz, 93.2 kHz hsync Modeline "1400x1050" 184 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync



EndSection



Section "Device"

# no known options

Identifier "nvidia"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "pny"

BoardName "GeForce4MX420"

VideoRam 64000



#BusID

EndSection



Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "nvidia"

Monitor "Monitor0"

DefaultDepth 16



Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "800x600"

EndSubsection



EndSection



Section "DRI"

Mode 0666

EndSection

[sde]

thanks =)