nvidia driver question - need to edit XF86Config ?

avatar · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 44 Location: London

I've installed nvidia drivers from portage. I get the splash screen just before fluxbox and it works fine. Now, how do I put on the nice effects like put a shadow around the mouse etc? I looked in XF86Config and see that it was not updated.

The reason I'm asking this question is that I've installed the nvidia drivers directly from the nvidia site when I was using Slackware, and looked into the XF86Config, and a whole bunch of extra options were added there.

maystorm · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 1:14 am Post subject:

You'll need to edit your XF86Config file manually. Please note that you can find a sample config file here after having emerged the nvidia drivers: /usr/doc/nvidia-glx-xxxxx/XF86Config.sample.gz

I've tweaked my XF86Config in the meantime to contain following additional lines (to disable the splash screen and get mouse shadow):

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 8:55 am Post subject: Does X takes a long time to load?

I recently bought a GeForce 4 mx 440 based video card
(upgraded from GF2MX) and X takes forever to load after installing Nvidia drivers I wanted to ask if you had similar problems (if it's a problem at all)

maystorm · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:06 am Post subject:

Was the loading time faster before you upgraded to your GF4 card?

I remember having seen some threads in these forums dealing with slowly starting X servers, perhaps you can try a search https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php.

My X starts with what I would call normal speed, however, I've not got a GF4 but a GF2 card.
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Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:41 am Post subject: Yes it was

With GF2 X used to load in 1-2 seconds. now it takes almost half a minute
to load. (same with win98 actually) when I use the non-accelerated nv driver it loads quickly but the pointer is invisible. I also tried to use XDirectFB but
I really don't know how to make the rivaFB kernel driver work.

maystorm · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject:

Sorry, wouldn't have any idea straight away what could cause the slow-down.

However, you may want to have a look at the nVidia Linux Driver Troubleshooting Guide; worth could be to try the tweak regarding BIOS Repost mentioned in that document.
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