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

Len Lawrence tarazed25 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 08:08:41 CEST 2012


On 18/04/12 22:38, Morgan Leijström 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
Yes that is probably the best way to go.  These Alienware machines are a 
bit challenging for Linux so I thought I would stick with what I know 
but since the X51 is not needed for production just now it can remain a 
test machine.

Var s\u00e5 god

Len


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