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Old 05-08-2004, 11:49 AM   #1
donadrez
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Graphic problems with nvidia and mandrake 10

HI I'm rather new to linux, so pease go easy on the fansy talk.

I have installed Mandrake 10, and thus it has installed my graphic drivers for my geforce 3 ti200 card.
Hovever I have a destinct feeling that some thing is'nt working since my computer can't run a simple game like tuxracer without enormous lag.

Other than running the installation of mandrake, I haven't touched enything related to the graphiccard, og mandrake graphic configuration.

just to say it up front THANKS.
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Old 05-08-2004, 01:30 PM   #2
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Well, seeing as you have an "nvidia" card. You might check. "nvidia" .com for the drivers first?
 
Old 05-08-2004, 05:42 PM   #3
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huh? mandrake have installed the drivers.
further more I have allready tried that the last time I installed mandrake, and it got me no were
but thanks anyway
 
Old 05-08-2004, 05:56 PM   #4
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Huh? I'm confused...

Your saying mandrake illegally packages and installs proprietary drivers for their video cards?

That's awesome. And when will Nvidia be suing them for this?
 
Old 05-08-2004, 06:38 PM   #5
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goto nvidia.com and download NVIDIA's drivers. mandrake drivers are just generic and give u basic video.
 
Old 05-08-2004, 06:43 PM   #6
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correction it haven't installed the correct driver... my bad
it just identified the card and installed á driver.

now i started installing the driver using a guide from this website.
when i get to the driver installation part is says that my kernel is not properly compiled.
I'm using mandrake 10.0 which I belive uses the 2.6 kernel
can enybody help me with this
 
Old 05-30-2004, 04:21 PM   #7
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not quite working properly :S
i have followed the instructions here and given in the README file and all seems to be perfect. one small problem. when X boots my monitor turns off (power saving) as if the computer is turned off. however the hard disk light and everything else seems to be running OK and when i hit ctrl+alt+backspace my original runlevel 3 (that i was in before i started X)is there and no error messages :S
 
  


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