nVidia Drivers

[ND4SPDR]

I need to install 3D drivers for my nVidia card on Mandrake 10.1. I have RTFM and STFW and regardless of what I do, I can't get it to work. Any help would be great.

[lordnothing]

To start, what have you done so far to try to install them? What errors are you getting? We need more information to troubleshoot your problem effectively.

[ND4SPDR]

Typically, I'll exit X and run the file. It'll start, fail to connect to nVidia's site for updates, and then complain that I haven't edited headers and quit. I don't know the exact error is. I'll try it again when I get home to my Linux box.

[Stormblazer]

Unless you're distro is really really new, you have an old version of the nVidia driver, or you rebuilt your kernel/have a customized kernel, it shouldn't need to connect to their site at all. In all the exceptions I mentioned, you can have it compile the kernel interface locally instead of looking for updates on nVidia's site (which won't work for anything I mentioned except having an old version of the driver). Just make sure you've installed the kernel sources and select 'no' when it asks to connect to nVidia's website.

[ND4SPDR]

It's claiming it can't load the nvidia.o module because kernel header files may be incorrect.

[Gnux]

It's claiming it can't load the nvidia.o module because kernel header files may be incorrect.

What is ur kernel? Could we see ur X config file? does it work with the nv module?
Before using nvidia module nv must work

[ND4SPDR]

How do I view my X config file?

[techieMoe]

How do I view my X config file?

Depending on what Mandrake 10.1 uses (I'm not sure; don't use it myself), your X config file is either:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

or

/etc/X11/XF86Config

You can view it either with a text editor like Gedit or Emacs, or from the command line:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | less

or

pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf