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Im frustrated I NEED A driver for GeForceMX/MX400

#1 User is offline   Michael H 

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Posted 23 July 2004 - 12:25 PM

My computer will not play movies or show any photo's .
Can anyone Please Help ME
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#2 User is offline   Dapper Dan 

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Posted 23 July 2004 - 03:34 PM

I assume you're using Linux?? wink Which distro are you using? What are you getting now? Anything? Is this the card you have? Tell us exactly what the problem is and what errors it's giving you if any, and we should have you up and running soon. smile
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#3 User is offline   iamroot 

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Posted 24 July 2004 - 11:36 AM

I used the GeForce 4 MX 440 some time back and it worked fine with rh8, rh9 and FC2. You might want to go to

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html

to get the NVIDIA drivers. Should work for your card.
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#4 User is offline   Michael H 

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Posted 26 July 2004 - 11:58 AM

smile Thanks for the Info Grafics up and Running,Very much Aprieciated! Now I can see what Im doing.
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#5 User is offline   Koba 

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Posted 26 July 2004 - 06:00 PM

Hi

I'm interested in getting GeForce 4 MX drivers too. I'm also on redhat 9.

This means I'll be watching this post closely to see if I get any ideas (no success so far).

Koba
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#6 User is offline   OldSpiceAP 

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Posted 29 July 2004 - 09:13 PM

Alright - in case anyone else needs the help - All Linux Nvidia drivers can be downloaded stright from NVIDIA's site in much the same way as the windows drivers. The instructions on the site are also quite clear - but one thing to remember is you can't have x11 running when you run the driver install program, so you will have to kill x or boot into failsafe mode depending on your linux distro. Another problem thats run into sometimes is that many distro's come with a nvidia driver already on it, but the built-in driver doesn't have 3D acceleration. And often, even after installing the driver from nvidia, it doesn't actually load the driver. This is because its still using the built in driver. The way to fix this is simple. Locate your xf86config file. Its usually found in /etc/X11 - some distro's hace a xf86config and a xf86config-4 file, (in this case edit the -4 file). ANyways - open the file in an editor as root. Locate the line that says something like:
Driver "nv"

and change it to

Driver "nvidia"

Then restart your X11 by logging out and back in again.


If have other problems let me know.

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