Has anyone tried the nvidia drivers with Antix yet? I have a Gforce4 Ti4200. I think it should use the nvidia-glx package. I tried it on Mepis pre7 and it crapped out X.

Did you try it? What were the results?

eriefisher

I got a black screen and a flashing light on the monitor.

Well I installed Nvidia (legacy) via Mepis admin>>xconfig rebooted and it using the Nvidia driver.

eriefisher

Nvidia (legacy) working fine here. Installed using Mepis tools (xconfig)

I made a mess of things trying to install the nvidia drivers. For some reason the video module was not loading and I couldn't adjust the brightness on my laptop. Eventually things worked magically. I have no idea which of the many things I did accomplished this.

One of my first problems I encountered was having a version of gcc that the nvidia installer was picking up that my kernel was not compiled with. So I just changed the symlink of /usr/bin/gcc to the version it wanted. This was the first solution that popped into my mind.

rm /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc

changing the 4.1 to whatever version you are supposed to be linking to

nvidia-settings kept seg faulting as a regular user, but not as root. It did not seem to work anyway once I got it going. So as usual I just edited it by hand (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) because a lot of things were enabled by default like cursor shadow.

To the drivers:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html"
linktext was:"http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html"
====================================