Help installing nVidia Linux Detonators under Mandrake 8.2

[RamzaBeoulve]

the readme is waaaay out of my league, so can anyone gimmie easy to follow instructions, or a link to a tutorial?

yes I am a linux noob 🙁

 

[pac1085]

look for the anandtech nix faqs a bunch of posts down...its supposed to be stuck to the top but doesnt seem to be anymore...n0cmonkey wrote a nice faq on how to get them to work under linux.

 

[ParagonX]

Short version:

Download the GLX file and the kernel file for Mandrake 8.2 (SMP version if you have dual processors, otherwise download the otherone)

rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX-bleh.rpm
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_Kernel-bleh.rpm

open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in your favorite text editor
under the MODULES section, add the line: Load "glx"
where is says driver = "nv", replace "nv" with "nvidia"

save the file and reboot... if everything went right, you should see a nvidia spash logo when you load your window manager

They say you shouldn't do all that in X Windows, but i've done it in KDE before without problems... If it's your first time, i would set up Mandrake to not load X on bootup, that way if you screw things up, you can fix it.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: ICSVortex
look for the anandtech nix faqs a bunch of posts down...its supposed to be stuck to the top but doesnt seem to be anymore...n0cmonkey wrote a nice faq on how to get them to work under linux.

Thanks for the kind words 🙂

RamzaBeoulve, please look at my tutorial. Try following it to the letter, and let me know (pm or post here or in the FAQ thread) how it goes. Im wanting to push v1 of it out, but since I dont have an nVidia card I cant test it out myself (although Im getting a free nVidia card possibly later this week).