Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in the process but still managed to get it done properly.
1st roadblock: Sound did not seem to work in KDE. Solution: ALSA does not work on my machine for some reason. This is odd since everything was OK in RC2. Anyway, switching back to OSS solved my problem. Most importantly: 2nd roadblock: NVIDIA driver installation. The RPMS provided through MDK club work but installation is not completed properly: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 must still be edited manually to replace Driver "nv" by Driver "nvidia"... Is this such a big issue to fix? XFdrake would simply not be able to change it to the new drivers... Anyway, once that was taken care of, a second problem arose: glxgears would simply restart X. It turns out that XFree 4.3 is setup to load libglx.a when asked to do so in the config file. The NVIDIA GLX RPM provides libglx.so instead. The solution to my problem was therefore to rename libglx.a to libglx.a.org and create a new link between libglx.a and ligblx.so. This is done in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ I know that some people have faced the same problem in the past but it never hurts to repeat a solution! I hope that they'll fix this when I get my shrink-wrapped pack... Patrick
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