Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
On Thursday 27 December 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: I agree. I have an Athlon 1GHz and I've given up trying to use nvidia's drivers. I too have noticed that there seem to be a lot of problems with AMD cpus and nvidia drivers. Because I have 1152MB RAM I use Mandrake's enterprise kernels.

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Steve
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:23:37AM -0500, Wes Gregg wrote: snip I hope you get it all worked out before you get tired of trying. Another question: My box (Mandrake Linux 8.1 Powerpack) says I have kernels 2.4.8 and 2.2.19. But when I installed (over and over) I never saw a place for

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread skinky
On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:23, Wes Gregg wrote: | I have read several references that stated we need to only use a | (BEEFY) AMD-approved power supply. Especially with the faster/newer | AMDs and video cards as they draw lots of wattage. Also with more ram, | bigger/faster spinning

[newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-26 Thread Wes Gregg
1)Yes you are using the right Kernel. The OS is listed as a 586 because Mandrake by default loads a 'safe' Pentium/AMD/mmx kernel. You can make your own kernel with the simple GUI tools built into Mandrake, but This is as I thought... But that would be the first thing I've gotten