I am on mandriva 2006.0 free and I am having problems with most things graphic related. Long story short, some things work great, others crash for no reason extremely early.

i have decided to try and upgrade my drivers,my x.org version is
and my current driver version is 8.20.8.


So how can I upgrade my drivers? Can I simply download the latest drivers from the madriva repository and install the new drivers over my current drivers? Or do I need to do anything else?

Do I also need to update the dkms (whatever that is) module, as I needed to get that to get the drivers working in the first place.



Thanks for the help.

Check out my DRI post in my sig. Has a section on installing ATI and the trials and tribulations of one user getting his ATI to compile/install.

I have enabled it and it does work, I'm just looking to upgrade the drivers and am wondering if I can simply overwrite the old packages with the new ones.

Somebody must have experience with this...

Before installing new graphics card drivers the advice is to always uninstall the old ones first - I can't sy 100% if you should have to do this with Linux but it's the way it's got to be done in Windows. Sorry I can't be of more of a help.