Fromt that terminal window, just type kudzu. It should just tell you it will configure your new card. It should give you a generic driver.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file > Hello: > > Recently my video card died, and I replaced it with a 32Mb DDR Nvidia Ge > Force 2GTS. My hard drive is partitioned, so installing the proper drivers > for my windows portion was uneventful. Unfortunately, I can't say the same > about my linux partition. When I boot up in linux, I can only get the > console (terminal) mode, in runlevel 3. So I need to install the drivers in > linux as well. > > I visited the nvidia site and according to their instructions I need to > download two files. One is the glx file and the other is an .rpm kernel > file which corresponds to my system. Question is, it is not clear to me, > which is the correct file. I have installed Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.3 > (i.e. the standard installation of mandrake power pack edition). The > options in the nvidia site are: the "UP kernel, the "enterprise kernel", or > the "smp kernel". Any ideas which is the file I should d/l, or at least how > to find out? > > Also, I don't play video games in my system, is there by any chance some > kind of generic driver I can install, which was included with the original > powerpak package? Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Dexter > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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