Problem installing Nvidia drivers in Mandrake8

[JCopin]

i have tried to follow the directions on the nvidia site to install their drivers for my Geforce2MX card.

the lastest driver they have on the site is for mandrake 7.2 but people say they have openGL working in mandrake8 XFree4.x

i did a
rpm -ivh nvidiakernelname.rpm
rpm -ivh GLXfile.rpm
both for 7.2
and i then changed the XFree86Config-4 files and changed driver from "nv" to "nvidia"
but i dont see a section to add the "Load "glx"" line

someone please help me out

thanks

Jason

[jlany]

I'm not to sure if this will help, but take a look here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php

[CMonster]

build and install the kernel driver from source

[Malakin]

Like cmonster said you'll have to build them from source for mandrake 8.0. The rpms for mandrake 7.2 will not work. To repeat a little of what you already said - the only tricky parts are changing the "nv" to "nvidia", adding "Load "glx"" in the "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" file (not the /etc/X11/XF86Config one) and if NVdriver isn't being loaded in when you boot which it wasn't for me then add "NVdriver" to the "/etc/modules" file.
When you think you have it working a quick way to test is use the "glxinfo" command. It should say direct rendering is enabled.

[Avatar]

Actually, you can build the kernel from source. The GLX isssue is actually with the tarball itself. The problem is that it is pitting the GLX files in a different place than LM8 wants them. The easiest thing to do is use the LM7.2 GLX RPM from NVIDIA. The other way is to modify the GLX Makefile and change all the "/usr/lib" paths to "/usr/X11R6/lib" and then rerun make.

[JALU]

To answer your question, it goes in the section called Modules I believe. I am not positive, but I am pretty sure that was where it was, and since I am not at home I can't check for sure. Just add the line to that section.