On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 10:53, Mr. E. wrote: > So, now I'm at square one... no nvidia drivers installed.... I'll try to > install the drivers again. > > I figured something went wrong by me using the rpm drivers at first, then > trying the tar files, then modifying that console.perm file.. so I'll stick > with ONE set of driver files this time. Actually, I suspect the opposite since I have just successfully gotten the Nvidia drivers up by using the 8.1 rpms from MandrakeUser, the Instructions from MandrakeUser and the one missing instruction from MandrakeUser, the need to go all the way down to a system power off and cold boot after the drivers are installed.
That worked perfectly for me, YMMV, but I think where you got into trouble was trying to fix the failures after the rpm install by changing security permissions rather than power cycling the system. I could easily have gone there because most of the early advice focused on fixing the security problems and that might have been important with versions of Mandrake prior to 8.1, but with 8.1 and using the MandrakeUser rpms it isn't necessary to do anything to the security settings. The fixes you attempted probably put you in a position where the proper setup couldn't work even after a power cycle. I would urge you to try the MandrakeUser 8.1 rpms again, run XFdrake to set your resolution, shutdown, power off, and cold boot. That is all that is necessary for 8.1 with a stock kernel. Anyone who has updated their kernel will ofcourse need to use the sources to recompile. The only area of possible confusion would be if people didn't know which of the three 8.1 stock kernels they have. I have the download edition of 8.1 and the Nvidia kernel rpm that worked with that one is the one that is refered to as the standard kernel. Obviously, those of you with multiprocessors will recognize that you need the smp rpm, I wasn't sure which versions of 8.1 would use the third kernel option but I correctly suspected that they wouldn't include the download edition. Traci
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