nvidia drivers !

[Cyberfed]

ok folks, i have mandrake 9.1 and i have downloaded the GLX and the KERNEL rpm packages from texstar. i installed them as root in (not logged into X) and when i go back into X and browse my files, nothing has been installed, and it says all packages have been installed when i try and run the rpm. Why's it saying its installed, when its not?

[Mado]

I'm confused, what card do you have and what drivers did you download?

[kriss]

what happens when you install the rpms?

(rpm -Uvh file.rpm)

[Cyberfed]

NVIDIA_GLX-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586.rpm
and
NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586.rpm



i have a geforce 2 ultra

when i try to install the rpm's it says everything is already installed, but there is nothing installed anywhere

[davidoff404]

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Have you done a

rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586.rpm

or

NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586.

? That'll check whether they are actually installed.
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On the flipside, I think that one should always download the nvidia drivers from their website as a *.sh file. It's trivial to install it that way (assuming that you've got kernel sources preinstalled), and the only post-install hacking that needs to be done is to edit your XF86-Config file, removing some lines.[/code]

[sk8bloke87]

that is cool, we both have geforce2 ultras.

anyways, looks like youre trying to install older drivers? get the newest ones from nVidia...

i wrote a how-to for them:

http://www.cox-internet.com/torrah/H...520Drivers.pdf