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

[Donald Stewart]

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.