[plug] What have I done wrong?

[Michael]

Try adding to following to the 'device' section of ur X config.

Option "NvAgp" "1" 

You can also try a number 2.

Regards
Michael Collard

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Lee Jamieson wrote:
> 
> Hiya all,
> 
> I tried installing the NVIDIA binaries for my video card.  KDE 3.2 has 
> some "OpenGL" screen savers that I wanted to try out and before I 
> installed the binaries, did not work.
> 
> I installed the binaries (Binary??) following the instructions I had 
> printed out from the website, changed the XFree86 config file and did 
> whatever else it said.
> 
> I then rebooted and tried the OpenGL screensavers, which worked, but the 
> machine hung - quite severely, it took a push of the reset button to get 
> back. I tried this different times, resetting the screensaver back to 
> the one I was using, and going about my business.  The machine hung 
> again with no OpenGL applications running.
> 
> I tried looking in the XFree86 log file to see if there were any errors, 
> but there were no obvious ones.
> 
> I then tried reinstalling the nvidia binaries again, and followed the 
> instructions again.
> 
> Now, those "OpenGl" screensavers do not work - it is as if I had gone 
> back before my first attempt at installing.
> 
> I'm using Mandrake 10 Official, 2.6.6
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Lee
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