Hello everyone,
I hate doing this, especially a subject that has been discussed so much
already. I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 (Powerpack). Someone was nice
enough to send me step-by-step directions for installing the nVidia drivers
(the glx file and the kernel?). I sucessfully downloaded the 1541 version
and installed them. Then due to lots of other things I had to reinstall (yet
again, oh I hope this is the last time for a while!) the OS. Yup, you
guessed it, I didn't keep a hard copy of the directions, and of course the
email was wiped by the reinstall.
I am hoping a good samaritan will "talk" me through this one more (last)
time. In return I promise not only to PRINT a copy, but to try to help
someone else when they try to install.
I would like to install the latest "kernel"(?) which is 2314. I couldn't
find a 2314 glx file but I read @ nVidia's site that I can use the 2313 - I
think (sorry, working nights means I've been up about 23 hours).
Anyhow, I've got every form of the "2313" files that I could find for
Mandrake 8.1 (uni-processor). I also got both forms of the "2314" file. I
think they are both source files, but one is tar?
I was using 1541 and having lockups, but I have determined that they were
due to a bad setting in my bios causing my soundcard to lock the system.
IOW, it wasn't happening on GL function, but when it tried to play sounds,
such as booting into KDE. I seem to have fixed that one, though. I can not
only boot KDE with my sound card installed now - I can play .mp3's while
browsing with Opera, downloading files, etc. So I hope that I won't
encounter any more of the kind of lockups that only a reset switch will cure.
That's what finally caused me to reinstall this last (actually most of them)
time, one too many resets corrupted my filesystem or simply enough files that
I couldn't boot. I've been going through this all month, first with many
problems that I couldn't solve no matter what I tried (turned out to need a
bios upgrade, which caused Win98 to swear I had no sound/video/modem (oops)
but Linux sure seemed to like it. Then video, then the soundcard (after the
reinstall). So you can see why I fear that I'll screw it up. I've read
several ways to do this on the web, but I am getting more confused the more I
read. I think that whichever set of files I choose to use I only need two of
them? That is how I did the 1541 set. I know whatever tools I need to
manipulate/install them are installed on my system (along with 3+gigs of
other things I have yet to fully explore, WOW! Matches my Windows partition
exactly for size, and that includes lots of music cd's I've loaded in as mp3s!
Someone please help me put my desktop out of its misery (by being able to
finally stay out of Win98SE).
BTW, are there many users out there like my wife and myself - wanting to use
Mandrake 8.1 as a pure desktop box? Comparing the useful software
preinstalled on most new computers against my Powerpack install? I may never
actually NEED to buy or download another application again (but I will, there
are so many out there) if I don't want to. I would like to see Mandrake
start a heavy advertising campaign targeting Joe Desktop.
Thanks very much,
Wes Gregg
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Registered Linux User # 252649
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