On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:17:57 +0000, Bo Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Karlsson wrote: > > > "From the start" is a bit exaggerated. But [NVidia] had binary drivers > > much earlier than ati. > > This thread has has led me to wonder about drivers. I have never > installed a "source" distro, complied a kernel or installed a driver for > my video card. > > I assumed SuSe, Mandrake, et.al. had them built in. Am I going to need > to download a driver from NVidia (I decided on one of their cards) and > compile it in? Is it a module or what? > > I haven't gotten that far in the handbook. Is this covered?
Gentoo has nice ebuilds for the drivers. It will download and set them up for you. You just have to make sure you're using them right. BTW, Gentoo does support binary packages. Most people just don't use them. ;-) -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
