Ok, Hear is the lo down. I have the latest version of Mandrake installed and I have a Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200. Can someone please tell me how to install the freakin Nvidia drivers. Nvidia's instructions are too damm confusing. And please keep in mind I really a newbie to linux,but I have been repairing Winblows machines for years and pritty well virsed in computer tirms. So you dont have to dumb it down that much.

Read the installation guide

Download the RPM for MDK 9.0
Download the tar file for GLX
Reboot the PC to console mode.
Install the rpm:
rpm -ivh nvidia....rpm (whatever the file name is)
install glx file
tar -zxvf ...glx.tar.gz (whatever the glx tar file name is)
cd to glx directory
make install
Modify /etc/X11/X11F86Config-4 file
per installation guide change to:
Driver "nvidia"
add
load "glx"
remove if they exist
load "dri"
load "GLcore"
load nidia module
modprobe nvidia

your ready to test
startx

Would it be better if i had the RPM for the GLX?

personally i'd say ALWAYS get tar.gz's and install them properly. personally i thought the nvidia docs were more than adequate

I installed from the src.rpm files on Red Hat 8. Found loads of help in this and other Linux forums, but put my own walk through together so I would forget how I did it. If you don't mind downloading a M$ Word file you can get my solution here : http://www.pcu-services.co.uk/linux/...%20Drivers.doc

Should be more or less the same for Mandrake

You should also have the kernel headers(kernel Source) installed if your going to be intalling from tar ball, if you don't your going to get alot of errors when you try to compile them.

Thanx JezzerP that little doc u wrote help a whole bunch