terry-s Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 Help! Could someone clarify the current way of installing the special binary drivers for the video cards: There are so many 'nvidia'-related packages, and I can't find out where to see what they all do. There is a howto about nvidia binaries ( https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567 ), it seems to have been written quite a long time ago. Is it all still current, or is it for doing something that the newer packages now also do? (I think I might have by far too many nvidia packages installed, but can't see how to thin it all out.) Thanks in advance Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 The easiest way to do it now is make sure you have set up your easyurpmi repositories using the link above, and then install a package called dkms-nvidia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 ... and a package called kernel-source-stripped. There are many version of that too but you have to install the one which matches to your running kernel. So in a command line issue "uname -a" without quotes. It will write something like Linux localhost 2.6.17-13mdv #1 SMP Fri Mar 23 19:03:31 UTC 2007 i686 AMD Sempron 2800+ GNU/LinuxThe number in bold is what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 dexter: installing dkms-nvidia will pull in kernel-source etc as dependencies. ian: full instructions: first, follow the instructions at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available to ensure you have the necessary repositories configured. Then install the nvidia and dkms-nvidia packages. Then follow these instructions: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr...ion_not_working (they're written for a different problem, as you can see, but they actually apply to your situation). If you're asked whether to use proprietary or free drivers, obviously, pick proprietary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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