Posted: Sat 27 Aug 2011, 14:43
Hello,
Success!!
After much struggling, finally got GLX going on my sons NVidia box..
Backstory...
My 4 yr old son loves Lugaru, a game battleshooter posted a while back...
But I wanted my laptop back...
I tried every pet available, to no avail, just nv and vesa worked.
His machine is a Sony Vaio Desktop
1.4g P4, 128mb ram, 512mb swap
NVidia geforce 400 video card...
How?
Make sure you have about 200mb free space in your save file first..
1 Download the NVidia Linux package for your card.
For his it was :
Nvidia-Linux-x86-93.43.20-pkg1.run
2 Download the devx for your system.
His is Wary 5.10 so wary_devx.501.sfs.
3 Download the kernel sources for your system.
His was kernel sources 2.6.32.28.sfs
4 Enable both sfs files in the bootmanager, and reboot..
5 After rebooting, and making sure both sfs files are enabled..
Drop out of X to the command prompt and run the installer..
For his I typed:
/mnt/home/Nvidia-Linux-x86-93.43.20-pkg1.run
Let the installer do its thing, and watch for any errors..
(If you have the wrong driver, which I did the first time around, the installer scans your card, and will tell you which package you need...)
When it is finished, reboot...
After rebooting, run xorgwizard, and choose nvidia..
Ta-da...
Now his old machine gets way better frame rates than mine....
And I get my laptop back....
Success!!
After much struggling, finally got GLX going on my sons NVidia box..
Backstory...
My 4 yr old son loves Lugaru, a game battleshooter posted a while back...
But I wanted my laptop back...
I tried every pet available, to no avail, just nv and vesa worked.
His machine is a Sony Vaio Desktop
1.4g P4, 128mb ram, 512mb swap
NVidia geforce 400 video card...
How?
Make sure you have about 200mb free space in your save file first..
1 Download the NVidia Linux package for your card.
For his it was :
Nvidia-Linux-x86-93.43.20-pkg1.run
2 Download the devx for your system.
His is Wary 5.10 so wary_devx.501.sfs.
3 Download the kernel sources for your system.
His was kernel sources 2.6.32.28.sfs
4 Enable both sfs files in the bootmanager, and reboot..
5 After rebooting, and making sure both sfs files are enabled..
Drop out of X to the command prompt and run the installer..
For his I typed:
/mnt/home/Nvidia-Linux-x86-93.43.20-pkg1.run
Let the installer do its thing, and watch for any errors..
(If you have the wrong driver, which I did the first time around, the installer scans your card, and will tell you which package you need...)
When it is finished, reboot...
After rebooting, run xorgwizard, and choose nvidia..
Ta-da...
Now his old machine gets way better frame rates than mine....
And I get my laptop back....