On Monday 31 Mar 2003 4:33 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Most of you are running 9.1 already. I am confy with 9.0, but, things move > and we should move with them, so, I would like to upgrade. First question: > can I upgrade from 9.0 or do I have to do a clean install? I suppose a > clean install is what is most recommended. Second question: I have read > something about some issues with NVIDIA graphics cards. I have a NVIDIA > RIVA TNT2 64 pro and I would like to know in advance what to do in order to > make it work right after the installation. > > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial > > Who ate my sandwich?
As someone else discovered recently. Upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 does work, but if you are using the closed source Nvidia drivers, the old drivers from 9.0 will not work in 9.1 and as a result X will be broken until you reconfigure the XF86Config-4 file. Since you are quite new, I would suggest the simplest course of action is to do a new install (but without formatting your /home partition if you have one) 9.1 will then come up working with the open source 'nv' driver. You can then install the closed source 'nvidia' drivers from Texstar's site. I have posted recently on how to add Texstar as a urpmi source. I have not tried it myself, but I hear Texstars Nvidia RPM will do all the configuration file edits for you. Texstar also has RPMs to install java, flash, and RealPlayer I have not tried them because they I use the ones from Mandrake Club You can find which RPMS a urpmi source has by using Mandrake Software Manager to show rpms 'by source repository' When installing Texstar RPMS you will get a "signature error" This is because RPMS can be signed with a key to prove they were made by the person claiming to have made them. You can either ignore the error, or install Texstars keyring you will find here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/gpgkey derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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