On Monday 15 Dec 2003 3:11 pm, Void lon iXaarii wrote: > for a couple of versions, and with other distros tooo every time I > install a new mandrake I then start chromium or tuxracer in a hope that > someday the system will have 3d acceleration installed out of the box. > In never worked ... with no nvidia cards I ever tried .. nor with an > older ati ... but chromium worked with acceleation on a matrox g200 ... > wow. The stuff of dreams of future. I just can't understand why a couple > of Mb can't be spared to put a set of nvidia (& ati as it's becoming > more spread) on the mandrake cds. I assume it's licenses .. but it's > quite annoying for the user. And to top that the installation is still > somethng a beginner can't really be expected to do: > -you've got to run a shell binary from Nvidia ... which requires no X > ... so how on earth do you do that as a beginner? I knew that I could go > to mcc and have "reboot without x starting" and did it there .. but > that's not quite obvious to the beginner ... and then knowing about > "startx" -to top things I got pretty shocked when I saw that the 9.2 > download cds didn't include the kernel source .. so when you installed the > nvidia drivers and it asked for the kernel source ... well ... I was at a > friends house who didn't reallly have internet .. sooo ... it stunk. > > well .. these are my feelings right now. Waiting and dreaming for a > beginner friendly (and gamer friendly) Mandrake.
Actually you *can* install the Nvidia drivers while in X. And if you buy the boxed sets or are a Mandrake Club member they are available as RPMs As for not knowing about startx. Well it is mentioned in the manual :-) As for why nvidia drivers are not bundled with the download edition. It is simply because they are not GPL and MandrakeSoft **will not** include anything on the download edition which is not fully free. If you want to try out a Mandrake based distro which does include nvidia drivers out of the box then check out PCLOS at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/pclinuxos.html It is a live CD which will boot into a very nice desktop environment including Nvidia drivers. It is a preview edition and will not install to hard drive perfectly, but when it is finished it looks like a very nice way to get up and running with Mandrake with minimum learning curve. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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