driver for Geforce Fx 5200
 

i have a GeForce FX 5200 256mb agp graphics card, and im using just a generic driver, but in order to play games like enemy territory i need to have opengl...so i need the driver for my Geforce Fx 5200

im using mandrake 10.1 beta
kernel is 2.6.8


can someone please help me? i moved to linux to get away from windows, but if i cant play my games then what the hell??!!


-someone please im dyin here without my games
-thanks in advance

Someone made a tutorial just for you :DD

Hope that helps! If you get stuck (I know it tripped me up the first time) just post back.

"make sure you have the kernel source downloaded and installed correctly"

how do i do that?

The kernel sources *should* be on your install CDs, although I don't know if it was installed by default. Look through your packages (or check the package manager - I'm not too familiar with MDK, sorry) for something along the lines of 'kernel-source[some extra stuff here].rpm.

alright thanks alot!

im alot of steps closer to running my games than i was before, and i have you to thank!

thank you

Not a problem, anytime :D

hey i think this is right....
kernel-2.6.8.1.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm

is that correct?

and if so how do i install it?

ya, I used to have Mandrake 10.0, this is what I did to get the sources (if there not already there)
# urpmi kernel-sources

If you want to see if you have first, before you needlessly install a kernel, go to /usr/src/ in a file manager, or whatever, and see if you see linux-2.6.something. If ther is then you have the kernel sources installed already.

that worked thank you! but now i have different problems with installing the driver, which i have posted here