LinuxNewbie.org: Installing NVIDIA Drivers for Mandrake

Jun 07, 2000, 18:04 (0 Talkback[s])
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[ Thanks to Sensei for this link. ]

"First off, this is what worked for me on Mandrake 7. I cannot say for sure it will work on any other Linux distribution. Also, there may be a few unneeded steps, but like I said, this is how *I* got it to work."

"From a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0: Go to ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.9/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/ Download the following [to] the directory of your choice..."

"Also download the NVIDIA drivers to the directory of your choice. Pick up the non-RPMS based files..."

"You should now have a directory call NVIDIA_kernel-0.9 Change to the new directory. Now to compile the kernel driver: make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include"

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