On Thursday 28 March 2002 01:54, FemmeFatale wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > There is an article at the Mandrake Forum about getting nvidia cards to > > work under 8.2, including the news that rpms will be available to Club > > members later this week. If you're in that boat, why not take a look?
> > so...if you're not a club member you get no RPM later? > > Is that correct? Civileme may be able to enlighten us more, but AFAIK the reason why it's a Club thing is that the standard Mandrake distro is Open Source only, and the nvidia drivers are closed source - they're free as in beer but not as in speech. Shouldn't matter much anyway - RPMs are a little easier, but unless 8.2 is radically different from 8.0 (which is what I have at home), installing the nvidia drivers is straightforward enough (see earlier posts). In any case, XFree86 works passably on its own - you get some increase in performance if you install nvidia's own drivers, but nothing to write home about (unless you're an avid 3D gamer). Robin
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