I didn't install the new Kernal and i'm using the Nvidia drivers. I just went to their site and installed them. They work fine. All I did was the following
1. Went to
http://www.nvidia.com
2. Downloaded the Linux ia-32 drivers
3. set Xfree not to boot using the mandrake configuration utility
4. Logged in as root then navigated to my documents folder (where i saved the file)
5. sh (filename)
6. Then it tells you to go view a readme file and change it. You must do this as root
7. Locate the file, (I did this using xfree as root, I know it's not good to do but i'm not familar with the text based editors other then kwrite).
8. Changed the driver from "nv" to "nvidia"
9. I didn't have to do the other two steps but they are located in the readme file so just read it.
10. Rebooted, logged in to my username and typed in "startx" and I was off and running.