[Mageia-discuss] Building RPMs from commercial nVidia display driver

[Len Lawrence]

On 19/04/12 07:11, Donald Stewart wrote:
> On 18 April 2012 22:38, Morgan Leijström<fri at tribun.eu>  wrote:
>> torsdagen den 19 april 2012 00.10.12 skrev  Len Lawrence:
>>> I know you are all very busy assembling and beta-testing Mageia 2, and
>>> many thanks to you all...
>>>
>>> Mageia 1 is now running on my shiny new Alienware X51 using the VESA
>>> driver, not ideal for such a powerful beast and the 295.33 driver is
>>> recommended for the GTX 555 so I tried using the old Mandriva script to
>>> build the RPMs only to see it fall over:
>> Blatantly ignoring your question, but suggesting instead:
>>
>> Maybe you should try mga2b3 liveCD?
>> And if you like it just go for it.
>> (Then, for production use i suggest not doing updates once it works,
>> until final version is ready)
>> Feedbacking on any problem also gives better chance that mga2 will work better
>> on your machine later :)
>>
>> I am getting productive on mageia 2 already, but carefully as per above on
>> important machines.
>>
>> /Morgan
>> --
>> Morgan Leijström
> I have a memory somewhere of reading that the script needed rewritten
> for mga, but I think that it was, I just have no idea where.
>
> As for the beta3 idea - I have been productive since pre alpha, if
> that is what you feel like doing.
Will go for beta3.  The script might need to be rewritten again to cope 
with any changes nvidia might make in their packaging policy.  Will try 
to hunt it down.