-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 February 2003 03:30 pm, Preston Cody wrote: > Hi. > I've been switching distros for a long time now, and I really like the > mandrake look. > > My Problem: I have an Nvidia TNT2, so I need to get the nvidia drivers > from their website, compile them, and manually edit my XF86Config-4 > file. The average user shouldn't have to do this. > > What furthers my problem is that I had to download and compile a > separate kernel in order for the nvidia drivers to want to compile. > This of course messes up a lot of mandrake's features such as supermount > and various modules. > > This is enough of a pain to drive off even a veteran linux user. I do > not know how you guys should go about remedying this, because I know > your stance on closed-source drivers. Anybody have some ideas?
I use the NVIDIA drivers on 2 different computers with the Mandrake kernels. THe source RPM files have and should always compile fine. and at least for mandrake 9.0 they have a package for the mandrake kernel on the websight. how did you go about compiling the modules ? - -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RXk9sKWd3vub6wURAl7fAJ4/+pynRd9fr3H1N+GRoV5oQYP5dQCdGA24 ojlzYl8PMpc5/kljSr/EbxM= =skD7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
