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

[Len Lawrence]

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
Well, I tried the mga2b3 GNOME iso on the X51 and got nowhere. As my 
later post indicates the display is now working properly with mga1.  The 
live CD however has no idea how to drive the nVidia card and produces a 
display which is unuseable.  This should be the subject of another 
thread so I shall follow up later.  Meanwhile maybe a test on my 
production machine.

Len
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