[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.
I don't see any of my own replies to this thread but here goes.

Anssi Hannula developed the original package generator and modified it 
for mageia.  He posted a message on one of the forums.  Downloaded the 
new script and it ran perfectly.  Thanks Anssi.