Hi people,

Just wanted to tell you my little story about upgrading my main machine. Maybe 
it can be solved.

I upgraded my own desktop, a Athlon 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, NVidia GeForce2 DDR. In 
8.2, I had the NVidia GLX-package and NVidia kernel installed. After upgrade, 
I had a hell of a time getting it all to work. Since the nvidia-driver for X 
isn't shipped with Mandrake, it thought it would use the nv-driver. It 
didn't. But when I changed XFConfig-4 to use the nv driver, X just exited 
with a signal 11. Pretty confusing.

So, after a little playing around, I decided to reboot into that "other OS" 
and download the NVIDIA-GLX en NVIDIA-kernel packages from MandrakeClub 
(never been happier about being a member!) and after install and changing 
some of the values I changed to get it to work and running XFdrake, it 
finally worked again.

Knowing a bit about Linux and kernels and (especially important) the NVdriver, 
I was able to fix the problem. But there are a lot of Mandrake-users who 
wouldn't be able to.

I don't know if this can be fixed in 9.1 or anything, but I just wanted to 
report it. Maybe it helps someone :)

-- 
Regards,
Tim Stoop

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Random quote/fortune:
"But Huey, you PROMISED!" "Tell 'em I lied."


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