Which order to install drivers in Linux?

[Ziraku]

Later today I'm going to install Mandrake 8.2 on my computer and I was wondering in which order to install the drivers.

Speciffically, the driver for my GeForce 4 Ti 4200, which can be gotten from nVidia's website,

and the driver for my audigy...once i figure out the install instructions...(any good links to some?)

Anyway, I'm wondering if it would be better to install the nVidia drivers or the creative drivers first...The audigy drivers require kernel recompilation, do they not? Does this affect the decision at all?

Excuse me for my unknowingness, I'm i linux newbie 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

I would first see if they work out of the box, Mandrake is good about bundling 3rd party drivers. Both drivers will need some compiling, neither need a whole new kernel though. Make sure you install the kernel source (not sure if Mandrake does this by default or if you need to tell it to) otherwise you won't be able to compile either of them.

 

[manly]

Nvidia XF86 4.x pre-built drivers are available as a Mandrake 8.2 RPM. You'll need both the kernel drivers RPM and a GLX RPM. Installation is quite easy this way.

I'd suggest having Mandrake automagically setup your video card w/ a basic /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 setup during OS installation because the Nvidia drivers configuration instructions somewhat assume you already have a working XF86Config-4 file to tweak a few lines of.

 

[Ziraku]

Ok, cool. Thanks.

 

[Kai4Linux]

Also, Mandrake 8.2 has Audigy drivers out of the box

 

[Ziraku]

Yeah, i noticed that after I got it on. 8.1 never had them, so it surprised me.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Ziraku
Yeah, i noticed that after I got it on. 8.1 never had them, so it surprised me.

Yeah, adding new drivers in a new release is something they just started doing...