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installing the nvidia driver in Linux......................

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I downloaded the nvidia driver for linux mandrake 8.0 (i'm using 8.1) and tried to install by rpm and I got a dependencies error stating the the driver needed kernelXXXX and that it couldn't install because of this. Is there a better driver than the default one installed durring the linux install. Shouldn't the driver for 8.0 work for 8.1. Help please. Thanx.

I know this might be a better post for the Video section but here it is anyways. Gota get to work 😀
 
Well, you can ignore dependencies and force to install it but I don't think those drivers would work well anyway. Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 kernels are rather different. You better download the source and compile drivers by yourself (it's very easy actually 🙂.
 
If you could explain to me how I would go about compiling the driver myself I may just attempt that. There has to be a way to get accelerated OGL graphics in 8.1 with either the existing driver that my Nvidia GF2 pro is using or an updated driver. I'm tempted to "down-grade" to 8.0 at this point, 8.1 seems to be a little to much on the "cutting edge". Or maybe I should go with redhat7.1, I hear that its Quite a bit better than mandrake and maybe the best dist. of them all.
 
nVidia's linux driver page

In order to run these new drivers, you need one pair of files, below. Download the appropriate pair of files and read the README and Installation Guide for installation instructions.


ReadMe.txt

INSTALLING/UPGRADING BY TAR FILE

Instructions for the Impatient:

$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz
$ cd NVIDIA_kernel
$ make install
$ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX
$ make install

It should be that simple. And please dont start the mandrake vs redhat vs any other distro debate! 🙂

 
Where do I get the tar files? On the nvidia site the tar files arn't dist. specific. Are those the files i will need? Is this safe, that is to say is using these files safe on 8.1. Also, it says in the instructions to not startx and install the files with the x interface. How do I log out and then back in without x? Do I use xkill? One more thing, does it matter where I download the files to? Somewhere in the /root directory or just anywhere? Thanx 😀
 


<< Where do I get the tar files? On the nvidia site the tar files arn't dist. specific. Are those the files i will need? Is this safe, that is to say is using these files safe on 8.1. >>



Unless Mandrake did some REALLY funky stuff with their kernel, its as safe as installing a driver could be... 🙂



<< Also, it says in the instructions to not startx and install the files with the x interface. How do I log out and then back in without x? Do I use xkill? >>



init 3



<< One more thing, does it matter where I download the files to? Somewhere in the /root directory or just anywhere? Thanx 😀 >>



/root should basically have NOTHING in it. If you are browsing as root Ill smack you upside the head! 😉
But anyhow, I think they should go into the same directory as your kernel source, but I could be wrong. Check to see if there is specific information in the readme.
 
Ok, but when I cd NVIDIA_kernel it says no such directory same for _GLX. How could this be? The card is recognized and aparently installed using the generic geforce ddr driver. Shouldn't those directories exist? That command init 3 is typed from a terminal window right? I have tried the install both ways and both failed either because of the dependencies error or the no such directory error. Thanx.

P.S. Please keep the info comming 😀
 


<< Ok, but when I cd NVIDIA_kernel it says no such directory same for _GLX. How could this be? The card is recognized and aparently installed using the generic geforce ddr driver. Shouldn't those directories exist? That command init 3 is typed from a terminal window right? I have tried the install both ways and both failed either because of the dependencies error or the no such directory error. Thanx.

P.S. Please keep the info comming 😀 >>



Ok, so you downloaded the tarballs, moved them to the directory it specifies in the readme (if it does, if not you move it to your kernel directory), untar it then try to cd into the proper directories? Werer there any errors when you untarred it? Did it look like a bunch of stuff came out?

basically a rough install routing:

sudo cp ~/nvidiastuff.tar.gz /usr/local/src/linux
cd /usr/local/src/linux
sudo tar -zvxf nvidiastuff.tar.gz
cd nvidiastuff/
cd nextdirectory/

then do the make stuff.

I used nextdirectory/ and nvidiastuff because I was feeling too lazy to scroll down and figure out the real names 😛
 
Ya I would have thought that Nvidia would have had 8.1's driver up pretty quick. Anyways, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I am actually at work right now but when I get home I will be trying those RPM's out. The rpm are just easier, assumming they do what they are supposed to do huh.
 
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