On Friday 17 March 2006 4:00 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > 3. I gave up after 3 hours of trying to install the nvidia driver. > On Mandriva, when I "urpmi kernel-source", I get source set up > ready to use for something like an nvidia driver build. On Kubuntu, > when I "apt-get kernel-source", I just get a raw bz2 tarball. I had > to unpack it, configure it, and build it, just to get the version > headers created that the nvidia driver needed. Oh, and to do this, > I had to install gcc (but not the current version available, had to > retrieve an older version), the maketools, and so on. Oh yeah, the > only non-X run-level they have set up is failsafe; all run levels > from 2 to 5 are identical, and all start X. Nothing equivalent to > Mandriva's run level 3. I had to create my own run level (removed X > from run level 2) to even be able to run the nvidia installer. > Never did manage to get the nvidia driver to buld, so I was stuck > with no 3d acceleration. >
Ron. The way to install the nvidia driver is, in a terminal, type: sudo apt-get update (to update the repositories) then sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx finally sudo nvidia-glx-config enable This installs the nvidia driver. That's all there is to it! I've tried KUbuntu. Not particularly impressed with it, but had no problems at all with the repositories. I went to /etc/apt/sources.lst and, with an editor, un-hashed the ones which were hashed out. This gave me a lot more packages available to install if I needed them. Hope this helps Keith ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
