Paul,

> Can anyone tell me what the advantage would be of using the new Nvidia
> drivers over the ones that are installed with mandrake (running 8.0 here)?

nVidia's drivers support 3D. The stock Mandrake driver (nv) does not.

> And is there an easy way to go back to the original if the new ones don't
> work for me?

Yes. rpm -e the new one, and change your XFree86 config file back to its
original condition (changing, what, two or three lines).
 
> I sometimes experience strange effects in X where the display looks like
> repetitions of 15 or so horizontal lines, making reading it impossible, and
> all I can do is a reboot. Perhaps the new drivers would fix this problem.

Reboot? Are you not able to simply restart the X server?
 
Miark


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