Nvidia Driver
 

I have Mandriva 2007 installed on my system. it has a Nvidia Go Geforce 7400 graphic card. the Xorg servers or drivers are available for 7950 and 8800 which both dont work on mine after trying. how do i get it working? is there any site from where i can download it? or wat else can be done?

I have the same card, go to http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html, click download drivers, find the linux ones, put it somewhere and execute the program ("./Nvidia-foo"). If you afterwards run nvidia-xconf or something similar your xorg.conf is automatically adjusted. Alternatively you can edit xorg.conf by hand and change nv into nvidia. For compositing support add:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to the very end of the file.

Good luck.

thanks very much!!

You're welcome.

By the way you should for 3d acceleration also add

Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

to the screen section.

the new version,

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run

configures xorg.conf automatically.

My 2 cents, Glenn

Nvidia has a new driver: 100.14.19. This driver is working much better in my Sony Vaio Laptop FZ180/BE.