Hi,
The same thing happens when using kernel-devel - ie completely unreadable text when installing the nvidia driver - if i didn't know the nvidia installer I would never have been able to install the driver. i.e I choose the options - i.e 32 bit support from memory
- It should work if i've compiled my own kernel or not
- this only occurs on amd64 version not i586 mandriva one 2009
Also official driver is so slow on both mandriva 2009 versions - there has to be certain pre-existing config files thats effecting the driver - the same driver version works fine on gentoo, ubuntu, opensuse and arch linux.... I have tried on madriva 2009 free - which had no nvidia driver installed...
Its completely unusable
I have also had the following issues - to install from mandriva 2009 i586 the livecd just came up with black screen - i had to
ctrl+alt+F1
login as root
drakxconf - choose nv (so as not to confuse driver,...)
/etc/init.d/dm restart
- this was just to make livecd boot
- also on amd64 kde4 seems to crash (generally kicker) all the time
- opengl desktop effects still hard lock my nvidia card - this is not a madriva issue - happens with all kde4 versions..- i.e windows style crash....
Years ago the first distro i use was mandriva - if I had been a newbie and this had been my first linux experience I wouldn't be coming back........